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Cikson
Asked: 2018-05-04 10:31:13 +0800 CST

Problem with running or uninstalling vuze on Ubuntu 17.10

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When I run Vuze in terminal Vuze runs with message and then crashes

Another copy of Vuze appears to be running: failed to lock file

\.azureus\.azlock

Vuze will now close

and in terminal all kind of warnings like: (Vuze:3427): Gtk-WARNING

**: Allocating size to GtkButton 0x7f7eb86e5dc0 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?

Exit from Azureus complete

Azureus TERMINATED.

I have tried uninstalling it but command

sudo apt-get purge vuze

says

Package 'vuze' is not installed, so not removed

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

I have delete /home/my_username/.vuze and /.azerus directories but it didn't help.

17.10 vuze

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I have found this How To and installed Vuze 5.7.5 and now it works

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  2. It's on snap, also:

    thufir@dur:~$ 
thufir@dur:~$ snap find vuze
Name     Version        Developer  Notes  Summary
vuze-vs  5.7.6.0-snap1  vs         -      Vuze is a powerful, open source, bittorrent client.
thufir@dur:~$ 
thufir@dur:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic
thufir@dur:~$

    which seems like a good way to install something like this. I've always had trouble with vuze, but the snap package seems okay.

    see also:

    https://askubuntu.com/a/1043404/45156

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