Setting up Azureus on Ubuntu

Here's how I installed Azureus on Ubuntu 7.10 since I prefer it over the default BitTorrent client that comes with Ubuntu. I didn't use the "Azureus" package from the apt repository because it seems to grab all sorts of old Java packages and I had issues with it in the past. That was a while ago, so maybe they've fixed the issues, but as of this writing, only Azureus 2.5 is in the repository and version 3.0 is current. So, first make sure you have Java installed properly--I used the "sun-java6-plugin" package (and its dependencies) to get Java set up (mainly for Firefox use)--then follow these steps:

• Go to azureus.sourceforge.net and download the latest tar.bz2 file for Linux to your home directory.
• From the terminal and in your home directory, run the following command (all one line): sudo tar jxvf Azureus_version_linux.tar.bz2 -C /opt/
  
• Next, run: sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/azureus.desktop
• Add the following text to the new file:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Azureus
Comment=Java BitTorrent Client
Exec=/opt/azureus/azureus
Icon=/opt/azureus/Azureus.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;

• Now you should see the "Azureus" shortcut under the "Internet" menu.
• UPDATE: I just had to change the permissions on the Azureus directory in order for updates to work. Since the instructions above create the directory with only "root" ownership, I had to enter chown -R myusername:myusername /opt/azureus to allow the updates to work. So I guess if you have multiple people that use Azureus you may want to set up a group for those users that has the appropriate permissions assigned.