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Google Earth and Enemy Territory installers fail on amd64. Other programs may be affected.

Bug #62924 reported by Richard Brooklyn
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Bug Description

Hi,

Installed Ubuntu Edgy Beta 1 yesterday. I am unable to install either Google Earth or Enemy Territory. Both installers are in the form of a .bin or .run file. I fear this problem may affect other installers (such as Quake 4). Both throw up fairly similar errors:

ribs@aphrodite:~/Desktop$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Password:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.0.2091..................................................................
./setup.sh: 284: setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk2: not found
./setup.sh: 299: setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup.gtk: not found
The setup program seems to have failed on amd64

Fatal error, installer failed to run at all!
ribs@aphrodite:~/Desktop$ sudo /home/ribs/Incoming/et-linux-2.60.x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Enemy Territory 2.60 Full Install..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
./setup.sh: 278: /home/ribs/.setup2350: not found
./setup.sh: 289: /home/ribs/.setup2350: not found
ribs@aphrodite:~/Desktop$

Using Linux32 does not help:
ribs@aphrodite:~/Desktop$ sudo linux32 /home/ribs/Incoming/et-linux-2.60.x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Enemy Territory 2.60 Full Install..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
./setup.sh: 278: /home/ribs/.setup3029: not found
./setup.sh: 289: /home/ribs/.setup3029: not found
ribs@aphrodite:~/Desktop$

As I'm running the amd64 version of Ubuntu, I feel it may be amd64 specific. I shall install the 32-bit version on a spare machine to test later on today.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 62924] Google Earth and Enemy Territory installers fail on amd64. Other programs may be affected.

 status Rejected

Those two are unsupported closed source programs.

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TJ (tj) wrote :

Although these are commercial programs the issue of getting some 32-bit-only applications to run on 64-bit is wider than these examples. The integrated installers are generally the problem - not the applications themselves.

The solution (on Gutsy at least) is:

$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
$ wget http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ia32-libs-gtk/ia32-libs-gtk_16_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg --force-all -i ia32-libs-gtk_16_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install

Now you should be able to install 32-bit applications:

$ sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
$ sudo ln -s /opt/google-earth/googleearth /usr/bin/googleearth
$ googleearth

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mercutio22 (macabro22) wrote :

by doing
$ sudo dpkg --force-all -i ia32-libs-gtk_16_amd64.deb

Will I still be able to install 64 bit software as 64-bit software or will I force all new software to run as 32bit applications?
Do you understand what I mean?

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TJ (tj) wrote :

The options only apply to the command itself, ensuring any conflicts are ignored so the install of the i32-libs library completes successfully.

It doesn't affect anything you later install, or affect any preference for 32-bit or 64-bit. It provides alternative 32-bit libraries that 32-bit programs can use in place of the 64-bit libraries used by default on a 64-bit (amd64/x86_64) installation.

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Graham (ubuntu-grahams) wrote :

gnorth@graham-workstation:/sda4/home/gnorth$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies...Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  ia32-libs-gtk
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 246 not upgraded.
After this operation, 7574kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 140692 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ia32-libs-gtk ...

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