azureus crashed when I try to start it (Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy))

[nick]

Binary package hint: azureus

When I run azureus from applications menu, it crashes without any error report. I have removed the azureus package and all packages that depends on it with --purge option:
   apt-get --purge remove azureus
   apt-get --purge autoremove
This must result in resetting configuration of azureus packages, but when I reinstall azureus I get the same crash.
When I try to start azureus from command line and get following:
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nmn@nmn1:~$ azureus
DEBUG::Tue Nov 13 12:24:10 GMT+03:00 2007::org.gudy.azureus2.core3.security.impl.SESecurityManagerImpl::initialise::-1:
  No SSL provider available
    SESecurityManager::initialise::-1,ConfigurationChecker::setSystemProperties::-1,ConfigurationManager::initialise::-1,ConfigurationManager::getInstance::-1,LoggerImpl::init::-1,Logger::<clinit>::-1,Class::initializeClass::-1,Logger::isEnabled::-1,StartServer::<init>::-1,Main::<init>::-1,Main::main::-1
DEBUG::Tue Nov 13 12:24:10 GMT+03:00 2007::org.gudy.azureus2.core3.security.impl.SESecurityManagerImpl::initialise::-1:
  No SSL provider available
    SESecurityManager::initialise::-1,CryptoManagerImpl::<init>::-1,CryptoManagerImpl::getSingleton::-1,CryptoManagerFactory::getSingleton::-1,AzureusCoreImpl::<init>::-1,AzureusCoreImpl::create::-1,AzureusCoreFactory::create::-1,Main::<init>::-1,Main::main::-1
DEBUG::Tue Nov 13 12:24:14 GMT+03:00 2007::com.aelitis.azureus.core.networkmanager.impl.tcp.VirtualChannelSelectorImpl::select::-1:
  VirtualChannelSelector: No progress for op 1: listener = class com.aelitis.azureus.core.clientmessageservice.impl.NonBlockingReadWriteService$2, count = 10, socket: open = true, connected = true
    VirtualChannelSelector::select::-1,NonBlockingReadWriteService$1::runSupport::-1,AEThread::run::-1
Aborted (core dumped)
nmn@nmn1:~$
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OpenSSL is installed in my system, all dependencies are resolved.

Version information:
System - Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy)
Azureus - 2.5.0.0repack1-0ubuntu1
OpenSSL - 0.9.8e-5ubuntu3.1

[nick (nmn1)]

Removing "~/.azureus/logs/save" (as it is recommended with similar bug) does not help, but when I have removed the whole directory "~/.azureus" it will start normally. The question is why "apt-get --purge azureus" does not remove this directory?