Questions about the 64-bit architecture, and how to get some software working on it.

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Diffrence between amd64 and i386 version of ubuntu

Can anyone one explain what is the difference between both the versions of Ubuntu? I installed 11.10 i386 and wrote some C code that worked fine in that platform but failed to work in 11.10 amd64 on ...
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unable to get bootloader on Ubuntu12.04

I have dual boot Lenovo laptop g580. I have already Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit installed . I want Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit that's why I tried to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit in place of 32 bit. ...
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Ubuntu wont boot to complete installation on Windows 8

My computer has Windows 8 Pro and I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 64 Bit through Wubi. "I don't want to uninstall Windows 8 and I don't know how to partition disks" After Installation It says: ...
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USB headset does not work

OS: Ubuntu 12.10 64Bit. Manufacture of headset CM Storm, model sirus true 5.1 surround Gaming headset all aspects of USB microphone work. Output mute button works with graphical interface to ...
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Is Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit the same for AMD too? [duplicate]

I have a ASUS K55VM-SX086D 64-bit. I was downloading Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64-bit, but was confused the 64-bit version also includes AMD too, and I have an Intel motherboard. So: Is Ubuntu 12.04.2 ...
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Only 4GB RAM out of 8 shown in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit and in BIOS

I have seen similar questions and answers but mine is: a. I have 8GB RAM installed b. My BIOS shows 4GB c. Ubuntu's System Setting/Details shows 3.7GB (but this small decrease is not a great issue ...
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fglrx drivers can not be installed?

I have troubles with installing ANY non-free driver for my graphic card! When I tryied to install drivers via Software Sources nothing happens. Then I open terminal and tryied to do it manually. ...
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“Unspecified error” when connecting camera on 64-bit Ubuntu

I have a Canon 40D that worked well with 32-bit Ubuntu all the way from 10.04 through 12.04. However, I switched to 64-bit 12.04 a while back, and since then, connecting the camera just brings up a ...
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AMD Driver Install Troubleshooting

I have an ATI 5670 HD. I'm running ubuntu 12.10 64bit. I've been having a hell of a time trying to install the most recent drivers for my video card. Everything else seems to be working with the ...
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installing ubuntu 12.10 VM on a win 7 host

I attempted to install Ubuntu 12.10 on Oracle Virtual Box and I had difficulties. I am using a Windows 7 64-bit host machine. I set the VDI disk size to dynamic at 8GB and the Base memory at 644MB. I ...
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Is it better to install 32bit Ubuntu for a EMT64 processor? [duplicate]

I got a Dell OptiPlex 9010 recently - it has an Intel® Core™ i7-3770 Processor. Intel declares in the specifications (http://ark.intel.com/products/65719/) that it's compatible with 64bit instruction ...
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How to solve YouTube video loading error?

My YouTube videos don't load. I have Flash installed, and this is for the 64-bit version of my Ubuntu 12.10. The video just doesn't load at all! It just says that an error has occurred. I have ...
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how to remove a foreign architecture?

On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, we'd like to remove the i386 foreign architecture it comes with, but I don't see a "dpkg" command to do this cleanly. In Stuck with foreign-architecture=i386 when using ...
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Start Ubuntu One on Windows 7 64bit errors

When I start the program, sometimes I get a window that says "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click Ok to close the application." When this happens, the program fails to ...
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Can't get passed the welcome screen

I have a Acer Aspire 5553 Quad Core 64 bit Windows 7. I can boot Ubuntu 12.10 from a Live CD, but when I get to welcome screen (language choice,try Ubuntu or install Ubuntu). I have no response from ...
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Installing 64bit as 32 bit

I had downloaded Ubuntu the 64-bit version of 12.04 but I have an old computer which does not meet the minimum requirements for 64bit. Can I Install the 32bit version from this download or will I ...
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fglrx works on Ubuntu 12.10 (32-bit), but not Ubuntu 12.10 (64-bit) on the same computer. How do I fix it on the 64-bit install?

I have followed instructions for every option listed here (uninstalling in between attempts, of course), but each one results in Unity not loading; no sidebar, no desktop icons, and no window borders. ...
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Youtube video loading porblem!

Ok so yeah as the title say's my youtube vids wont load.I do have java installed, and this is for the 64-bit version of Ubuntu btw the version is 12.10, TO be even more specific the video just dosent ...
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Login screen loop

I have Ubuntu 12.04 64bits and it worked fine until today. This is the problem: when I introduce my password at the login screen a black window appears and then it comes back to the same screen. If I ...
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How to install Ktechlab on Kubuntu 12.10 64-bits

I try to install Ktechlab on my Kubuntu 12.10 64-bits. It had a lot of problem. It missed a lot of dependencies. I try to download them, but they still missed alot of other. What is the good ...
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Black screen when lunching games and apps - 12.04 with AMD

when I try to open some programs like Treeworlds and Stellarium I get black screen (I can hear the sound) But nothing appears on the screen. My Graphic card is AMD HD Radeon 7670M And i have installed ...
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Problems with gamma and backlight on Intel HD Graphics

I have a problem keeping my settings for gamma and backlight on an Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit version. I can successfully set the values using the xgamma and xbacklight programs, however this settings get ...
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Cannot disable Dim Screen when on battery to saver power

The option "Dim screen to saver power" in "system settings -> power" seems to be getting ignored, because even after i uncheck it my pc still dims the screen everytime I switch to battery power. I'm ...
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What flavour of ubuntu (32-bit/64-bit) do I get when I install using Windows Installer

I've installed Ubuntu on my 64-bit system using windows installer. What version I might've got??
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Unbuntu 12.10 install into VMware WS 8.04 (under win7) stuck on file 43

I've gotten the same result 4 times thus far. Using Windows 7 Enterprise on Apple Mac Pro. Vmware Workstation 8.04, attempting to install Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit VMware seems to correctly identify ...
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I chose to download the 32-bit version, but it downloads the 64-bit version instead. Why?

I had it installed and running last night, but I could tell it wasn't 32-bit cause when installing the Adobe Flash player, it said I had a 64-bit OS. I uninstalled it, then downloaded it again, then ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit won't play DVDs

I have a Lenovo T400 with an Intel Cenrino 2 vPro prcessor and I am running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. For the most part, everything is running great, but I have one problem. For some reason I can not play ...
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Netflix on Ubuntu Black screen

I've installed Netflix-desktop using the sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio method. See this link for the whole thing. It works great up until I select a show. After I select a show I get ...
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Installing cunit on UBuntu quantal

I'm trying to install the cunit (C unit testing framework) packages on Quantal (64bit). cunit seems to be held in a number of packages, but according to apt-get these are broken. Attempt 1: $ sudo ...
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Ubuntu server12.04 not connecting to other LAN (via site-to-site VPN)

dear community members: I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 server (x64), and planned using it as a web server within a local network, which has 3 physical locations connected via site-to-site ...
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Bios unable to find Ubuntu 64bit CD, with 32bit installed already

My friend and I are having a problem, where his PC won't find Ubuntu 64bit CD, after having installed 32 bit already by accident. He gets a BIOS message saying "Media test failed. Check cable" and ...
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Veetle Plugin - Error “Unable to play two streams simultaneously - Mac cannot have two channels open in separate browsers”

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 64bits, after a lot of research I finally managed to install the veetle plugin on my firefox browser (I was having trouble because the default I was trying to install was for ...
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1 suspicious file with size 140TB?

SOLVED please see the bottom answer for my solution After I use GParted to fix my partition(GParted ran well but my laptop shutt down because it ran out battery power and didn't finish the process ...
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After install ubuntu 12.10 cannot boot to windows 8 ( pre-installed)

recently I have bought a lenovo z580 with pre installed windows 8 and I have installed ubuntu 12.10 ( secure boot was enabled when I was installing ubuntu after the installation I disabled it) I can ...
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How can GParted be used to fix “partition does not start on physical sector boundary problem”? [duplicate]

UPDATED I tried to learn GParted and use it with all the risks -_- and I think that I found a solution, but I still have problem, please read my question below this is from terminal after I move ...
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How to install lib1394 i386 (32bit) version on ubuntu 11.10 amd64

I have an old acquisition program for a firewire that seems to need the 32bits version of the library libraw1394.so . Some notes, about the problem: I think that the output of uname -m indicates ...
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Mount denied because of NTFS

When I try to install ubuntu directly to windows using windows installer, and I reboot I get "Mount is denied because NTFS volume is already exclusively opened." What can I do? I need ubuntu to test ...
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Deleted /usr/bin/env by mistake, how can I recover it?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 X64, I deleted my /usr/bin/env file by mistake. How could I restore this? Also I copy a file as /usr/bin/dev, I don't know if I originally had a file called /usr/bin/dev. If ...
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Why won't Ubuntu boot with a series 5 ATI along with the Series 6 AMD's?

My setup is as follows: 2 AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series and a ATI Radeon HD 5670 Xubuntu 12.04 64bit and in case it makes a difference my Motherboard is a ASUS Formula IV. The driver versions I have ...
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headphone jack doesn't work in windows 7 since installing unbuntu

i installed unbuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit fine with a cd on a differant partition speakers and headphones work fine in unbuntu but only the speakers work in windows 7. the mic works fine in both, the only ...
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Manual intervention required for booting - How do I automate this?

I have Ubuntu 12.04 running exclusively on my aspire one 756 netbook, I downloaded the 64bit iso and made my install on a usb-stick. First issue: it did not boot automatically from that stick, I had ...
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libGL.so.1 is missing after changing graphics card - unable to run Steam

Since my graphics driver update failed and Ubuntu 12.04 64Bit couldn't load the driver, and I changed to use the on-board graphics hardware, steam isn't able to start. It just tells me: You are ...
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rtl8188ce wifi adapter is not detected after installing newest realtek driver

I have the following problem. Since I installed a kernel update yesterday on my ubuntu 12.10 I thought I might check if there is a new realtek driver too for my wifi(8188ce chip is still very unstable ...
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12.04, no steam in software center?

i have a newly installed 12.04 64bit ubuntu machine! fully updated. but in software center, there isnt anything with steam in the name. looking for the steam 64bit client. the desktop that i have is ...
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12.04.02 USB Installer, x86 works, x64 doesn't

so I downloaded both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of 12.04.2 (MD5 checks out); don't want 12.10 since I prefer LTS. I used Universal USB Installer ...
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Ubuntu 12.10, where is terminal? [closed]

Is a AMD 64 Athlon processor support by Ubuntu 12.10? Thanks.
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Choosing 64 bit Ubuntu on Universal USB installer [duplicate]

I would like to create an USB Live and I have intel processor which supports 64 bit systems but I dont know which version of Ubuntu best is for me..actually I have downloaded an Ubuntu iso file which ...
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Wrong architecture 'i386'

I have 64-bit Ubuntu (this is weird, because I can't install 64-bit Windows). I wanted to install Skype, but Ubuntu Software Center returns an error Wrong Architecture 'i386'. I tried to install other ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 guest on Server 2012 and Hyper-V Integration Component's

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 x64 as guest VM on Server 2012, and want to upgrade kernel to Linux 3.8 Linux 3.8 have balloon driver for dynamic memory and new IC I assume... Before upgrade, mouse ...
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Cuál versión (32 o 64 bits) de ubuntu instalar con este procesador? [duplicate]

English: Hello to all! This is the first time I have a question here. I'm going to partition my hard drive and install Ubuntu 12.04 with my Windows 7, the detail is that I have this processor: AMD ...

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