Olexa Heavy Industries » 64 Bit My Ass

0279.3 05-28-2012 / 10:21 pm ... Haxoring 64 Bit My Ass

64bit

If you’ve been up way too many hours, and you recently installed linux and nothing works. 1, it may be because your a dumb ass, 2, it may be because your tired, 3, it may be because you installed the 64 bit OS and you forgot, all your software is 32 bit.

I spent about 2 hours around 2AM yesterday, bangin’ my head as to why nothing seemed to run in my new Linux Mint install. I was like, man, it’s built on Ubuntu, all this stuff should work. Finally it clicked in, did I install 64 bit or 32 bit? If you’ve forgotten, the uname command is quite useful.

Try them out…

uname -s uname -m uname -r

Great… so now we know our OS is 64 bit, but our software… what is it? Run the command…

file "path to some executable"

Fantastic… so now we know we’ve been trying to use 32 bit software on a 64 bit system. Darn.

Fortunately, there is a fix. It doesn’t work for everything but give it a shot, it worked for the software I was trying to use, in particular Astrill.

The fix is to download the ia32 libs. It’s easy, run the following command…

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

If your lucky, your software will work, and you’ll avoid another OS install.

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