Vuze update/SWT library v3550

**v1nsai** · August 2nd, 2009

I'm having a problem updating vuze too, but mine is telling me that /usr/share/vuze is read-only so it can't be modified. I've tried sudo chown v1nsai /usr/share/vuze then restarting but same problem. Everything seems to be working (NOW, been ******* with it for at least an hour >.< ) so I'm not too worried about it, but wanted to cast my lot with the rest of you guys having vuze update probs.

**arjmage** · August 29th, 2009

I had the same problem. I used the getdeb packaged and upgraded to vuze 4.2.0.2 and then the updates would throw up the SWT and core 4.2.0.8 packages. But it would be unable to apply the patch.

/usr/share/vuze is not writable was a problem, and the command

Code:

sudo chown -R 777 /usr/share/vuze

did NOT help the problem. Each time it would start and do the same update attempt again.

However, this command DID help and now vuze updates itself without trouble

Code:

sudo java -cp ./plugins/azupdater/Updater.jar org.gudy.azureus2.update.Updater updateonly `pwd` ~/.azureus

As an aside... I'm no fan of Vuze's graphical display. I like the azureus style simplicity better, and so for others who also prefer that -- go to the preferences > interface and then there is a choose UI option, that lets switch back to the classic view. you may have to enable advanced or expert preferences view for this, I'm not sure.

Hope that helps somebody.

**lokutus25** · October 7th, 2009

I worked out the update when I noticed that I had both the azureus and vuze packages installed, coming from repos. Maybe I had both from an distro upgrade.
I just did:

dpkg --remove vuze
dpkg --removed azureus
aptitude install vuze

Running vuze from bash i had a warning to change the /usr/share/vuze permission to enable updates.

chmod 777 /usr/share/vuze

After that I followed the vuze update procedure and worked nice.
Hope it help.