how to install .i386.deb.bin package on amd64
Do you ever found file .i386.deb.bin ? there is no problem when you want to install it on i386/32 bit machine. but when you want to install it on amd64, it will be a problem. it will refuse install because it say it wrong architecture.
yesterday, i have download PacketTracer51_no_tutorials_i386_installer-deb.bin
- I install with command :
chmod the file to being executed :chmod +x PacketTracer51_no_tutorials_i386_installer-deb.bin
./PacketTracer51_no_tutorials_i386_installer-deb.bin
- In the midle installation ( after EULA aggreement ), it refuse to installed because it wrong architecture. I’m very confused, so I try asking goggle, and i find solution from ubuntuforums.org. the solution :
./PacketTracer51_no_tutorials_i386_installer-deb.bin
- In the midle installation ( when choose Yes or No in Eula Agreement ), go to /tmp/ directory. if you lucky , you will find a directory with PacketTracer-5.1.i386.deb inside it.
- Copy the file to another location,
- Cancel the Eula aggreement,
- Change directory to where you have copying the packet PacketTracer-5.1.i386.deb
- then install it :
sudo dpkg -i –force-all PacketTracer-5.1.i386.deb
Thats all, hope this can help another user that have problem same with me
I Download the packettracer5.1 from Rapidshare
3 Responses to “how to install .i386.deb.bin package on amd64”
thom
(1 comments.) on Jan 28, 2009
Ow.. thanks bro for the link. I’ve looked for packet tracer v 5 but I just find it here. Many thanks
Untung ada blog ini huehehehe
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Helpful post bro
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robman
on Apr 11, 2009
For some reason beyond me the terminal still kicks back wrong architecture. Even with this solution it still doesn’t work for me. Any ideas?Comment posted using
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Zekke
on Oct 21, 2009
Well, I just interrupted the installation script and installed the .i386.deb file using the “–force-all” flag.
But after that, PacketTracer5 refused to run, stating some libraries was missing. Some time later I realized that they weren’t missing, the were amd64, and the application was searching i386 versions of them.
I saw somewhere on the web (sorry, didn’t keep the link) to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to tell PT5 to use the QT4 library embedded ($PT5HOME/lib), and it solved the missing libraries issue.
But now I have an still unsolved issue: this QT4 library is damn ugly. The native library is much better, but is amd64. I’ll realy apreciate how to solve this.
By the way, this is the script I’m using to fill up the necessary environment variables:
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#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$PT5HOME" ] ; then
export PT5HOME=/usr/local/PacketTracer5
fi
if [ -z "${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" ] ; then
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PT5HOME/lib
else
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$PT5HOME/lib
fi
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$PT5HOME/bin/PacketTracer5
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