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Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client, with support for I2P and Tor anonymous communication protocols. It currently supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix. Azureus was first released in June 2003 at Sourceforge.net, mostly to experiment with the Standard Widget Toolkit from Eclipse. It is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients.

Installation

Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)

1. Add the multiverse repositories. See AddingRepositoriesHowto for more information.

2. Install Azureus and Sun Java by installing the following packages:

  • azureus

  • sun-java5-jre

3. Configure alternatives to use Sun's java 

sudo update-alternatives --config java

Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

1. Add universe and multiverse repositores. See AddingRepositoriesHowto for more information.

2. Install Azureus' dependencies, the following packages:

  • j2re1.4

  • libcommons-cli-java

  • liblog4j1.2-java

  • libseda-java

  • libswt-gtk-3.1-java

3. Download and install Azureus: 

wget http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/pool/contrib/a/azureus/azureus_2.4.0.2-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i azureus_2.4.0.2-1_all.deb
rm azureus_2.4.0.2-1_all.deb

Troubleshooting

Pop-Ups can not be closed

Due to a bug in Azureus included in Dapper notification Popups can not be closed. in order to solve this issue you need a newer version as Dapper included azureus version. [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index_CVS.php Here] you can get the latest beta version. Download the .jar file and replace it with the one in folder /usr/share/java.

FAT32 partition under Linux

To save your downloads to a FAT32 (Windows) partition mounted under Ubuntu, you must enable Tools -> Options -> Files -> "Enable incremental file creation." Otherwise, you will see "Operation not permitted, setLength fails (allocateFiles...)" errors during file allocation.

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