Help on installing biglybt

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Hello everybody, i would like to install biglybt (the torrent client) but i am unable to

The installation complains about java being missing and asks me to install it; It then fails to install it but still, the installation program starts and install biglybt the same

Anyway when i clic on the icon nothing happens and when started from the terminal, app complains there’s no java in the looked path

can someone give me an hint?i have installed another client for the moment but i would love to use biglybt as it’s what i am used to

thanks everybody

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The recommended option is to use qbittorrent or ktorrent, they’re much faster and less resource heavy.

But nevertheless, this should work – how did you install java? Did you install the jre-current package? That should definitely have created a java binary and set up your PATH to include it.

What do you get if you run java from a terminal?

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how do i run java from the terminal?anyway here’s what biglybt says about

Java exec not found in PATH, starting auto-search...
ls: impossibile accedere a '/usr/java/latest': File o directory non esistente
ls: impossibile accedere a '/usr/java': File o directory non esistente
ls: impossibile accedere a '/usr/lib/jvm/latest': File o directory non esistente
Java exec found in  /usr/lib/jvm/jre-openjdk/bin/
Suitable java version found  [/usr/lib/jvm/jre-openjdk/bin/java = openjdk 21.0.5-internal]
Using swt/J17/swt-x86_64.jar v4.967
Errore: impossibile trovare o caricare la classe principale  -Dazureus.script.version=12
Causato da: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:  -Dazureus.script.version=12
Loading BiglyBT:
Errore: impossibile trovare o caricare la classe principale  -Dazureus.script.version=12
Causato da: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:  -Dazureus.script.version=12
Exit from BiglyBT complete
Errore: impossibile trovare o caricare la classe principale  -Dazureus.script.version=12
Causato da: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:  -Dazureus.script.version=12
BiglyBT TERMINATED

translated says “impossible to find or load principal class”

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java <filename>.jar

It would really help us to know more information about this and your system to assist you better.

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hello, many thank you for the help you’ve been giving

i don’t really know how i did it but it’s now working, says it finally found java 21

i would mark a solution but i’m not really sure what helped, probably installing java-current

so will leave it here for future reference

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