Azureus - Java BitTorrent Client in Ubuntu
Posted by admin on May 29th, 2007 
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Azureus Features
- Multiple torrent downloads
- Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent
- Advanced seeding rules
- Adjustable disk cache
- Only uses one port for all the torrents
- UPnP sets the forward on your router
- Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications
- Fast resume
- Can set a default download dir and move completed files
- Can import torrents automatically from a set dir
- Highly customizable interface
- IRC plugin included for quick help
- Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)
- Distributed Hash Table: host on it a completely decentralised torrent and/or benefit from it when the tracker is offline.
Azureus Plugins
Auto-adjustment of your upload and download speeds according to your network charge with Autospeed
Auto-download torrents with RSS Feed Scanner
Schedule upload and download speed limits with Speed Scheduler
Receive a mail when a download finishes with Status Mailer
Add numerous info on torrents (Extra seeding columns, Country Locator)
Remote control Azureus through the Swing Web Interface the HTML Web Interface
Install Azureus BitTorrent Client in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install azureus
If you want to install natively compiled code for use by gij use the following command
sudo apt-get install azureus-gcj
If you want to open azureus go to Applications—>Internet—>Azureus
Azureus is Loading
If you are opening Azureus first time you need to configure some basic options we will see now.first one is Choose the Language in this example i choose engkish and click next
You need to select your proficiency level to get the correct options and click next
Select your Internet connection speed and click next
Select your NAT/Server Port and click next
Select location of torrent files and click finish
Configuration completed message and click close
Once Azureus open completely you should see the following screen
Azureus Version Details
May 31st, 2007 at 9:37 am
I prefer uTorrent with Wine - due to the java-ness of Azureus slowing it down some what…
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Azureus has been my favourite for a while now
June 3rd, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Ive being using azureus for ages, but one thing I could never find out: how do you make it stop those annoying pop up dialogs that keep appearing in the bottom right corner of the screen?! Ive tried setting option->interface->alerts to 0 but still seem to get them.
Any ideas?
June 4th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
How is the memory usage of Azureus in Linux?
On Windows using Azureus is out of the question because of its gigantic (100 MB+) RAM usage.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:17 am
utorrent is the best torrent client. i am using utorrent under wine.
azureus is a memory hogger.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
utorrent is non-free (i.e. not FOSS) software, FYI, though it is apparently quite good from a strictly technical perspective.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
One feature of Azureus that I enjoy is the ability to run with a text-based console UI. This is perfect when used in conjunction with screen and a headless Linux server.
June 7th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Although azureus is quite feature rich and an excellent client, I do agree with a couple people here that it bogs the system down at times. Too heavy in the a** when it comes to memory usage.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Azureus is nice for semi-high end systems. I’ve noticed on my Dell c610 that Java likes to suck up resources when I use Azureus. A GREAT GTK alternative is Deluge. It is what I use on my lower end system, and it rocks!!!
r00tintheb0x
June 12th, 2007 at 1:19 am
I used Azureus on Windows before making the switch to Ubuntu, and so continue doing so in Linux. No complaints (yeat!) about the memory use, though as I start using Ubuntu for more and more, that may change.
2 things to ask:
1) the aptitude installer seemed not to work (as at late May 2007), would just exit out - apparently due to incompatability with newer versions of Java. Has this been fixed?
2) Anyone able to point a n00b in the direction of a guide to creating cron jobs to start and stop Azureus, to take advantage of off-peak download quotas?
June 16th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I’ve used Azureus before in Ubuntu and the speed was blazing. Then all of a sudden it came down to a crawl (my ratio was above 4.0). So I’ve tried to uninstall and reinstall azaureus and start with no previous torrents but it kept finding and duplicating the torrents. There are different versions of Azureus to install so I’m asking which is the RIGHT Azureus to use for installation -
1) From the Add/Remove in the Application menu
2) From the Synaptic Package Manager
3) From the terminal using sudo
I’ve tried other torrent program (bittorent, deluge, ktorrent, and freedownloader (which I know is not a torrent but it’s the default downloader in Ubuntu).
Adjusting the router is NOT an option. It was fast before without messing with the router settings. I’m also wondering if my ISP is throttling as well so is there a way to find out? (I ran the speedtest and the results is high dl/ul speed so that may not be the issue).
I did a search and there’s still some Azureus file so I have no way of knowing if they’re safe to be deleted manually.
Thanks for the advice.
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Unfortunately, Azureus eats too much memory. I woke up today and could hardly open the preference menu. I need something that is light-weight but encrypts.
@ deaftorrental:
It is true that some ISP cut the bandwidth for P2P. It can go very high at first and then it gets cut to 1-2kb/s. The way to solve it is to use Azureus’ encryption (tools->preference->transport->require transport encryption), so that the traffic looks like a noise to “bad” ISPs.
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:14 am
I’ve been using Azureus for quite a while and it’s great but limewire which I also have installed keeps coming up as default downloader specially when using mininova to get stuff how do I set azureus as my default and keep it there Thanx for any help
March 27th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I stopped using Azureus when uTorrent came out (using it with WINE), since it’s used to hog all my RAM (100-300MiB back when i had 512MiB).
These days i’m trying to switch permanently to Ktorrent, because it supports something that Azureus did but uTorrent did not: SafePeer lists. These will keep phony peers from connecting to you (ie, those created by the RIAA, MPAA and friends) and send you corrupted data.
Also, Ktorrent seems to be quite good in terms of memory management, though not as good as uTorrent unfortunately.
Cheers.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
In case Mark never figured out the answer to his question
Anyone able to point a n00b in the direction of a guide to creating cron jobs to start and stop Azureus, to take advantage of off-peak download quotas?
when I used Azureus, there was a scheduling plugin which would do what he wants, and much more.
August 9th, 2008 at 7:01 am
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