The Vuze BitTorrent protocol client has reached the 5.7.5 release a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and/or Linux Mint 18.

Vuze 5.7.5 features:

• Native search results view
• Native subscription results view
• Search results now show if result already in Vuze where possible
• Column Setup dialog now has a filter box
• Sharing Progress popups can now be suppressed
• New Files View column to show entire file path
• Option to switch to Tag Settings view after tag creation to allow customization
• Quick ‘notification view’ added to the Plugin Bar (Top Bar)
• Plugin bar now has right-click menu to select the sub-views of interest
• Sound/speech notifications added to notifications
• Option added to create a notification when a download added to/removed from a tag
• Option added to create a notification when a subscription has new results
• Added size column to download history
• Sidebar subscriptions menu option to update all manually
• Added search option to always route through a proxy
• Search templates now support full cookies
• New isError tag constraint
• Extended tag execute-on-assign actions to include pause and resume
• Added some time-related tag constraint expressions to support time-based automatic tag assignment
• Support for anonymous updating
• New tag removal policy of ‘move to old tag’
• Various other changes and bug-fixes

Install Vuze in Ubuntu via GetDeb repository:

The GetDeb repository has built Vuze 5.7.5 for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and their derivatives.

1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the GetDeb repository:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

You may replace xenial (for ubuntu 16.04) in the code with yakkety for Ubuntu 16.10.

2. Then download & install the gpg key via command:

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

3. After adding the repository, install Vuze 5.7.5 either via Synaptic Package Manager:

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or by running following commands in terminal:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install vuze

Uninstall:

To remove Vuze BitTorrent client, use Synaptic Package Manager or run command:

sudo apt remove vuze azureus && sudo apt autoremove

To remove the GetDeb repository, launch Software & Updates and go to Other Software tab.