[Discuss] New Kubuntu Install

[Brij Charan]

Did you install the 64bit version?

I actually tried that a few times, and I've actually reverted back to 32
bit.
(and its like tieing one my computers hands behind its back)
But 64 bit was too problimatic for compatibility for so many different
programs.

You 'can' run some sort of 32 bit mode on your ubuntu system, I just don't
remember how.
But I'm pretty sure someone here told me how to, search back in the archives
(can we do that?)
and you should find an answer.

Or!  Google 'running 32bit apps in 64bit ubuntu'.

Hope that helps :)

On Nov 3, 2007 4:36 PM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I decided to switch from Mandriva to Kubuntu on my wife's computer over
> the past couple of days. After loading it a couple of times, and having
> a really difficult time trying to figure out where Thunderbird had
> stored her address book and E-mails, I finally have most things going
> OK. However, I have a couple of problems.
>
> 1. I wanted to install Adobe Acroreader. I tried three different ways:
>
>    a) using the installer for LINUX (it had tons of errors, so I
> aborted that as I couldn't find all the things it was complaining about).
>    b) I tried using the .rpm file with alien -- that also encountered
> lots of problems
>    c) I downloaded the .deb package and tried to use dpkg to install it
> as follows:
>
> sudo dpkg -i AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i386.deb
>
> I got the following error:
>
> dpkg: error processing AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i386.deb (--install):
> package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> AdobeReader_enu-8.1.1-1.i386.deb
>
> There may be a version on some repository I don't know about.  I have
> Multiverse enabled, but cannot find it anywhere except on the Adobe
> site. My own computer has Kubuntu, but it is an older, 32 bit system. I
> don't remember how I installed it on that computer. I know there are
> alternative PDF viewers which DO work (and I use them when I must), but
> I prefer Acroread.
>
> I haven't tried to install Flash or Shockwave yet, and I have not
> successfully loaded anything that can reliably play embedded MIDI files
> (such as those on certain websites which open with QuickTime in
> Windows), .wmv files (Totem and MPlayer both fail to open them), and
> most Video DVDs don't seem to work).
>
> In the start menu, most of the packages that were loaded during the
> installation have entries like:
>
>            _:Entries in K-menu: Kate app name, Advanced text editor...
>
> Packages that I have installed later using Adept or Synaptic have a
> normal appearance. It is not really a big deal, but it is annoying and I
> would like to figure out how to fix these entries (if possible). The
> links actually work OK. I have tried editing them, without success.
>
> I have been able to recover all of my wife's documents, etc. and I
> really like GIMP 2.4 and OpenOffice 2.3 that were included.
>
> Any suggestions to fix these problems would be most welcome.
>
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Brij Charan
Software Developer, Specializing in UI Development.