Greetings Calin and Chuck; you have answered my query perfectly, but I will annotate below anyway.. Apparently I selected a machine with an incomplete Slack10.2 install, that had Java JRE but some other needed libraries that were missing from the GTK+ install.. I will start fresh and should be AOK.. On 09-13, chuck gelm wrote: > Ditto, sort of. > > I installed Azureus a year or so ago. > > http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp > > > > Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 8 > > The J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) allows end-users to run Java > applications. > > Installation Instructions <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/jre/install.html> > > > I'm using Slackware 10.2 [2.4.31]. > I do not recall that any libraries were needed. > What libraries was your system claiming to need? > What distribution and kernel version? You, obviously, had a good Slack install and I didn't.. Same Slack as you, 10.2; 2.4.31.. Will annotate the missing libraries in Calin's part below.. > > HTH, Chuck > > caszonyi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Hal wrote: > > > >> > >>Can I get some input about the various BitTorrent Clients available > >>for Linux?? > >> > >>I stumbled upon www.torrentreactor.net and found it very interesting. > >>I've tried to install Azureus, written in Java, but am bogged down > >>after installing a bazillion libraries it requires.. There must be a > >>simpler route, I would think.. Maybe not.. I'm out of my league > >>again... <grin> We thought Unix was complicated in the "good old > >>days." > >> > > > >I just installed azureus a couple of minutes ago. > >I only had to download the tar.bz2 file and i read the readme inside > >of it and it was up and running. > > > >AFAIK it only requires java so i have no idea about the libraries you > >are talking about. Can you be more specific - what libraries does it > >requiers ? > > When invoking ./azureus in the azureus tree it balked several times; first wanting libgdk_pixbuf; then libpangoxft, then libpangox, plus several more.. Had I a proper installation I'm sure this would not have happened.. I had to fetch each one in turn from another machine that should have clued me as to what was wrong.. I will start from scratch again, now that I know it is possible.. APPRECIATE!!!! -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
