Questions tagged [64-bit]

Questions about the 64-bit architecture, and how to get software (including 32-bit applications) working on it.

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I have just installed Ubuntu and I cant install any apps

I have just installed Ubuntu onto my laptop as a separate partition to my Windows drive. Everything went fine and all updates were installed. Then I went into the software centre and I can't install ...
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How to install 64-bit libraries on 32-bit system?

I need to cross-compile for 64-bit architecture on a 32-bit platform (using gcc-multilib and -m64 flag). For this I need to install 64-bit versions of the dependent libraries. How do I do that?
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Are there any kernel optimization for multi-arch?

I just discovered that Synaptic on my Oneiric installation displays about 55 thousand packages instead of 35. About 20 of these have a name ending with :i386. I also recently read in the Oneiric Beta ...
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How can I stop my Webkit browsers (except Chrom(ium/e) start LibreOffice and Acrobat when loading plugins?

Recently I've found a problem with my webkit browsers (Midori, Liferea's browser tab/feed preview, etc). When loading plugins (which is on start up for Midori), Adobe Acrobat's splash screen pops up, ...
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zeitgeist-daemon excessive RAM usage

I have installed last week Ubuntu 11.04 64 on a new machine. I am running the GUI using Unity. However I have noticed that after 1-2 hours the process zeitgeist-daemon starts using excessively the ...
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How can I install Adobe Flash player? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I view flash video? I'm trying to install flash player on my new install of Ubuntu 10.10. I've tried several ways, from the flash player website, another question on ...
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How to enable flash for Google Chrome 13? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Where is the Flash in Chrome? How can I install Adobe Flash player? I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty and I wanna use Google Chrome, but in about:plugin there are only 3 plugins: ...
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What's the latest video card that will work on a 64-bit system?

What kind of recent graphics card can I run under Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit?
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How to prevent KDE from loading the Gnome desktop for fullscreen applications?

Every time I start an application that is using fullscreen mode in KDE my gnome desktop background is loaded before starting the program. This is aesthetically diturbing and I suspect there is a waste ...
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Upgrade from 32 bit to 64 Bit? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to "upgrade" from a 32bit to a 64bit installation? I would like to know if it is possible to upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit. Say currently I am using ...
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crackling audio with Pulseaudio

This is a problem that I have been experiencing for a while now (since 9.10); before that I used a beta driver from Creative (I have a SB X-Fi on my Dell XPS 710), and even though, I have to compile ...
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Should i move from 32 bit to 64 bit? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should I install 64-bit Ubuntu if my hardware supports it? I am curently using ubuntu 11.04 32 bit recently i upgrade my processor to 1.8GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 Dual Core ...
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Internal DVD player is not recognised

Having trouble with my DVD player, sometimes it plays and sometimes the system doesn't even recognize that it's there. It ran fine under Windows. I'm running 11.04 64bit (it is a 64bit system) this is ...
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Chrome icon not appearing in Launcher

I've been using Chromium for some time now, but I decided to switch over to Chrome. More features. Anyways, I found that when I launch Chrome, its icon doesn't appear in the Launcher. Do any of you ...
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How to move from 10.04 32bit to 11.04 64bit? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I upgrade from x86 to x64 without losing settings? I installed Ubuntu at a time when I did not know whether my laptop was 64bit compatible. Stupid of me not to check. I ...
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Does the GN-WS50G-RH wireless card work in Ubuntu?

Alright so I've given up with my RT3090BC4 wifi card, someone has offered me their old laptops chip to put in mine but their motherboard is fried so we can't boot and see if the chip works on a LiveCD....
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Why is 32 bit Ubuntu "recommended" and 64 not? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why does Ubuntu Download recommend 32-bit install? On the Ubuntu download page, you have a choice between 32 and 64 bit, and the 32 bit one is "recommended". Why is that? I ...
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How to cross-compile an existing deb package from 64bit to 32bit architecture

I have rebuilt a deb package with a custom patch for my computer which is a 64bit machine. I did it using: sudo apt-get -b source [package name] Now my question is, how to do that in a similar ...
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Why do I need lib64 on my 32 bit machine?

I am trying to install Oracle on my 32-bit machine that runs Ubuntu 10.4. I am following install Oracle on Ubuntu tutorial. At the very first step there is a requirement to manually install library ...
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Successfully installed 11.04 64bit on two amd 32bit laptops--How is that possible? & Differences between i386 and amd64?

Just as the title reads i can't quite understand how it works flawlessly. From what i know the 32bit OS works on both 32bit & 64bit processors but 64bit OS only work on 64bit. So how is it ...
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Flash appears to be missing or broken in all browsers

In Firefox and Chrome (both latest stable, Ubuntu 11.04), flash is unavailable. I've uninstalled and reinstalled flashplugin-installer several times. I've tried creating a plugins folder in /opt/...
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Problems to boot on Natty with Kernel 2.6.39.1 [closed]

I've installed this new Kernel version (2.6.39.1) and it seems to me that isn't stable. When i boot my laptop it blocks.... and it shows a Fail on Graphics... What is the problem? I've installed ...
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Installing updates froze virtual machine

I was just installing updates for 10.10 amd_64 Ubuntu desktop guest system, but the system seems to have frozen while applying changes, going into host-F1 terminals doesn't work. If I do a hard reset ...
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"FIXING RECURSIVE FAULT BUT REBOOT IS NEEDED!" During installation

I'm a big fan of Ubuntu. I've installed it on every computer I had. But they were always 32-bit computers. And I've never had an experience with 64-bit computers. I've made a live USB and CD but ...
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Does the Netgear WPN511 PCMCIA card work with 64bit natty?

Hello fellow Ubuntu users! I am looking to purchase the Netgear WPN511 PCMCIA card to use with Ubuntu Natty 64-bit. Does this card work with 64-bit Ubuntu? If it does not, can someone recommend a ...
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Sitecom Wireless Network USB Micro Adapter Problem

I have problem with Sitecom Wireless Network USB Micro Adapter 300N WL-364. I use Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and it does not recognize any drivers for this model. What I did so far: used ndiswrapper to ...
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Banshee deleted playlists keep reappearing [closed]

I'm running Banshee on a clean install of 64-bit 10.10. When I add my music collection (~110 GB) it crashes repeatedly. I eventually get it all loaded up after a few restarts. Then I delete the ...
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How to get SRGP working? [closed]

I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10, and I'm trying to make SRGP work. SRGP is an old graphics package that accompanies the book "Computer Graphics" by Foley, van Dam, et al. I have installed libx11-dev,...
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lamp-server wants to install mysql but i want it to use already installed MariaDB

i want to install lamp-server in ubuntu 10.10 (the end goal is to install redmine), i am using sudo tasksel install lamp-server However after downloading packages it asks for a root password for ...
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8 GB RAM on 64 bit processor using 32 bit Ubuntu

I'm going to repeat the title in a longer word. Can a 32 bit Ubuntu address more than 4 gb of RAM on a 64 bit processor?
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How to ignore assigning /dev/cdrom to specific device?

I have a HDSPA USB stick from Vodafone for mobile broadband, a HUAWEI model K3520 (in some places also designated E169 I think) which works just fine in Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" (amd64). This device is ...
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Does 64bit Chromium include the Flash plugin

I tried to find this in Chromium's website but the don't mention it. I know that that Chromium 32bit comes with the Flash plugin included, but does the 64bit version include it too?
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Desktop effects could not be enabled when i try to enable visual effects. This is a VirtualBox 4.0.2 Guest

I am running on a Windows 7 64 bit host. Running VirtualBox 4.0.2 Running Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit guest. Running VirtualBox Guest Additions 4.0.2 - I ran the 4.0.2 .run file i got from virtualbox ...
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Resolving dependencies related to 32 bit libraries on 64 bit [closed]

I am struggling to make a 32bit application (related to adobe AIR) work on my 64bit Ubuntu system. The application starts fine but there is no sound. After running the application from the terminal, I'...
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Error fetchin' ATI Driver 64 bit

Whenever i try to install the ATI 64Bit drivers from jockey this comes up Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6-i386_2.12.1-0ubuntu8_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [...
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Why (again) Ubuntu's recommended version (for 11.04) is 32bit, not 64bit? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why not use 64-bit Ubuntu? 11.04 is already available. But why 32bit is again recommended and what's "wrong" with x64 ? P.S. I know about this question, but this is kinda ...
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When will deb multi arch support be included in Ubuntu?

When will deb multi arch support be included in Ubuntu? Is there any ongoing work?
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Xorg crash on MSI CX623 notebook

I have a MSI CX623 laptop and I have installed the Ubuntu 10.10, x64bit version on it. The problem is after I activated the Nvidia driver from Additional Drivers. After restarting Xorg crashes. ...
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Plugins missing in Firefox 4 whith dual 3.6 & 4 installed

I have installed both Firefox 3.6 and 4 in my 10.04 x64 ubuntu, I just downloaded the .tar.gz from the firefox page and started it up using a different firefox profile so it didn't share file between ...
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Ubuntu on AMD based Sony Vaio VPCY B15AG

Last week I bought a AMD E350 (AMD Fusion platform) based Sony VAIO (VPCYB15AG) having AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics, I removed Windows that came along with and installed Ubuntu 10.10 (AMD64) using USB ...
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Update/Installs fails with unrecoverable dpkg fatal error because libc6-i386 is missing

I keep receiving this error every-time I try to do some updates. I tried sudo dpkg --configure, sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install -f but they failed on me. installArchives() failed: (...
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How can I find/install a package that appears not to be available

I'm trying to install the novell iPrint client on ubuntu 10.10, which comes as an rpm package and so needs to be installed via alien. One of its requirements to work properly seems to be a package ...
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Is there a 64 bit deb for Crossover Impersonator?

Hi i just read about Crossover Linux Crossover Impersonator and wanted to try it out, however i read there is only a 32bit version. How can i run this on my 64 bit Ubuntu 11.04? Thanks in advance
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Audio problem on some flash videos

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on my 64-bit laptop, and I have Adobe Flash 10,2,161,22 installed. The vast majority of the time, I've no problems with flash videos in terms of both video and audio. But ...
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Help me solve my problem with NPR Media Player

First of, let me apologize for this getting a bit technical. Several weeks ago, I found that while using NPR's media player (e.g. click on 'Listen to the Show' - this is what I've been using as a ...
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How I debug an application that loads at startup / on login?

I am having with the NetworkManger Applet 0.8.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64. It (or NetworkManager or my wireless driver) seem to crash occasionally, which means I lose all network connectivity. How can I ...
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Packages not showing up in created APT repository

I created an APT repository using deb-scanpackages, and it seemed to go well. When I did a apt-get update on another server, the Packages.gz file was retrieved, and all seemed well - until I went to ...
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Install Opera on 64-bit

I tried to follow the instructions on the opera page, but it didn't work. I was assuming the base install should be the same for 64-bit, but it doesn't look so. After executing wget -qO - http://deb....
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Moving a LAMP set up from 32 bit to 64 bit

I have setup an Ubuntu server 10.10 32bit on an old Dell D610 Laptop for testing. I have the latest PHP, MySQL and Apache with Wordpress installed. After the testing is over and once I finish adding ...
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Facebook and Gmail stop working after 10 minutes

I have problems with facebook and gmail only: It works fine and lets me log in, view the content, read new messages, etc. But after 5-10 minutes it doesn't load at all: This webpage is not ...