Jar files
 

Last night and this morning i spent all day (total of about 5 to 6 hours) searching through the forums on how to get bit torrent to work. My first attempt was with bitTornado. Attempting to get wxpython and python to work together was unsuccessful.

So i decided to get a java version of torrent and tried Azuerus. I managed to extract the .bin file now i'm trying to extract the .jar file. Going through the forums and spending a few more hours trying to figure out how to install Java (version j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586) i managed to do so. Now when i try to extract/run the jar file i get the following response:

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[mike@Mike Downloads]$ java -jar Azureus2.1.0.4.jar

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Display
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.<init>(SWTThread.java:58)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.SWTThread.createInstance(SWTThread.java:45)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.mainwindow.Initializer.<init>(Initializer.java:70)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main.<init>(Main.java:64)
at org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main.main(Main.java:104)
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I'm not really firmilar with Java but what is this message telling me and how do i fix it? If it is compiled, where would the file be located?

Sorry if there is a duplicate post, i wasn't sure on where to put it. Any help would be appreciated on trying to get torrent to work.

This means you can't run the jar-file directly, it is just a jarred archive that you have to extract to get the classes you need to run it.
To extract the contents of a jar file:
--> jar xf jar-file

ahhh ok i extracted the files and i've got the classes in the folders i got. Now do i have compile them and execute ? And if i do how do i go abouts doing that?
This is what my result is after i extracted it

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[mike@Mike Downloads]$ jar xf Azureus2.1.0.4.jar
[mike@Mike Downloads]$ ls
Azureus2.1.0.4.jar
License.txt
META-INF
org
com

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Never mind i downloaded a differenet version of Azureus it works now. Thanks for your help anyways buddy