You're looking for an entry called "Terminal" in your menus. Running "sudo gedit /usr/share/stuff" doesn't get Azureus downloaded and installed; it runs a text editor (gedit) and if the file exists, then it will open the file in said text editor. If it doesn't exist, a new file will be created and when you save it, it will be saved as "azureus.desktop" in that directory. That file is used to make a menu entry (I think). sudo is used to give you root privilages. The root account is an administrator account (read a bit here).

The previous line is the one that does the "installing":

sudo tar jxvf Azureus_2.4.0.2_linux.tar.bz2 -C /opt.

This extracts the contents of the .tar.bz2 file (it's an archive, kind of like a .zip in Windows) to a directory under /opt.

Edit: in those instructions, wget is used to download the file (run "info wget" in a terminal to find out more about wget). You could of course download the file using your web browser instead and then run the other commands.

HTH.

I guess it's not critical, but still need some help gettting rid of this problem. Thanks in advance,

Johnny

Found the Terminal and ran the command, which resulted in:

I guess this implies I haven't actually (what's the language here) "put it in the Repository" (I know there's a right way to say it...)


I'll try again...

From Terminal:

From Synaptic Package Manager:

Please help, I think I need to get rid of this problem before I can continue. I've tried every option & button I can think of.

Don't know about Synaptic as I don't use Debian, but for this, you did actually download the file, right? Where did you save it to?

Edit: it'd be helpful to those that do know about Synaptic if you post what you're entering to get those "Type 'sudo' is not known" messages.

I'm not "typing" anything. I'm "reloading" the whatever it is that you reload when you are trying to get what you downloaded to install itself.

Also, what is debian ? I gather synaptic is some kind of language for use in Ubuntu. (What it is I have no idea.)

Some of the commands I see are prefaced with "deb". Are there more than one "languages" available in the Ubuntu terminal interface?

I don't know about "Wine". I tried to download it. I got a warning that it was not "certified" or something like that. That's when the Error messages started.

And I watched Azureus download, so I'm pretty sure I got that. But I can't get it to "reload" either.

Debian is a distribution, on which Ubuntu is based. Again, I don't know about "deb" commands. Synaptic is a graphical front-end to apt-get, the package management system for Debian (and derivatives).

Type "ls" (without quotes) to see what files (and directories) are in the current directory. That will tell you if the file is there or not. If you used wget, it should have saved in the current directory (that's the default IIRC). Perhaps you're not typing the filename exactly as it is? Case sensitivity matters here - "filename" is not the same as "FILENAME" for instance. You can use tab completion to get around this. You type the first few characters of the filename (with the appropriate capitalisation) and then hit the tab key. As long as the filename is unique, the rest will be filled in for you.