How to install Vuze on Ubuntu

This howto is based on a howto by Artificial Intelligence. That old howto is no longer updated or maintained and is long out of date for Vuze. That said it was very helpful back in the day and this howto could not exist with out it. The improvements I have made are for the name change and better security.


You need Java installed. Any of the Java flavors will work. I myself use Sun-Java6.
Tested on Ubuntu 14.10
Ready!



Step 1
Download Vuze from Download Instructions - Vuze Bittorrent Client



Step 2
Open up a terminal and cd to where you downloaded Vuze.
Code:

cd /home/username/Downloads

Example would be "$cd /Desktop" or "$cd /Downloads" or "$/home/steve/Downloads"



Code:

sudo tar jxvf VuzeInstaller.tar.bz2 -C /opt/

The -C is an upper case letter by the way



Step 3
Change permissions temporarily.
Code:

sudo chown -R username:username /opt/vuze/

Example would be "$sudo chown -R steve:steve /opt/vuze"



Step 4
To get Vuze into your Applications Menu.
Code:

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/Vuze.desktop

add or copy and paste this into the nano text editor.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Vuze
Comment=P2P Client
Exec=/opt/vuze/vuze
Icon=/opt/vuze/vuze.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;

To exit press Ctrl x and hit y for yes.



Step 5
It's a good idea to be able to launch Vuze from a terminal and in order to do that...
Code:

sudo nano /usr/bin/vuze

add or copy and paste this into the nano text editor.

#!/bin/sh

/opt/vuze/vuze "$*"

To exit press Ctrl x and hit y for yes.



Step 6
Make the /usr/bin/vuze executable.

Code:
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/vuze



Step 7
Open Vuze up and get any updates that are available. Do not install plugins at this time. Then restart Vuze and check for updates again as some updates won't appear until other updates are installed. If updates showed a second time then restart Vuze a third time and check for updates. Repeat until there are no updates. Do not install plugins at this time! Exit completely at this point by selecting "File/Exit".



Step 8
Change permissions to the user and group "vuze" that we created in step 1.
Code:

sudo chown -R username:username /opt/vuze

This takes care of the directory where we installed Vuze. It also secures all files and sub directories contained within "/opt/vuze"



Step 9
Change the permissions on the "/usr/bin/vuze" file we created earlier.
Code:

sudo chown username:username /usr/bin/vuze



Step 10
Now start up Vuze and install any plugins you desire. The plugins will now install to your user directory at ".azureus". This way you can install and remove and update without having to change permissions.



Step 11
To update Vuze itself, we need to change permissions.
Code:

sudo chown -R username:username /opt/vuze/

Now start up Vuze and update. Repeat until there are no updates any longer.
When there are no more updates you need to change the permissions back to a secure setting. To do this...
Code:

sudo chown -R username:username /opt/vuze