Ubuntu 11.10 64 bits installation

mferreira · Joined: 04 Apr 2012 Posts: 9 Location: Coimbra, Portugal

Hello,

I'm trying to use my X3-10M board in ubuntu 64 bits but there are some errors in installation that I want to share with you. I've followed the LinuxNotes.pdf present in the following link:

http://www.innovative-dsp.com/cgi-bin/dlLinux64.cgi?product=64X3-10M

First there was the need to use alien to install rpm packages. It work ok but present some warnings:

root@ubuntu:~/Downloads# alien -ik 64WinDriver-11.0-0.x86_64.rpm
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package WinDriver: postinst postrm preinst prerm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.

Is this a possible cause of future problems, or there is no need to worry?

Second. When I get to the Symbolic Links, I use the scrip in MalibuRed/KerPlug. But when I type the "./quicklink wdapi 1100" I get an error because of a missing directory. That directory is /usr/lib64.
I looked for it but found nothing. Then I've figured that in my /usr directory I only have lib and lib32 directory but no lib64. This seems to be a problem.
Can you tell why this happens? Is it possible that my OS is not installed correctly? I've looked to another PC with the same OS, and there is no /usr/lib64 directory too.

My OS is:
Linux ubuntu 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 20:45:39 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Can you help with this?
Thank you

bjackson · Joined: 12 Oct 2011 Posts: 178 Location: Simi Valley, CA

Hello,
Most of the time we do our installs on OpenSUSE, so I have not looked at ubuntu in a while. I will try to run an install today and tell you if I am seeing the same things. Meanwhile, here is a link for more specific instructions when installing on ubuntu linux:

http://www.innovative-dsp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1522

Let me know if this helps you. Otherwise, I will get back to you on what I find.

Thanks,
Brian Jackson
Innovative Integration

mferreira · Joined: 04 Apr 2012 Posts: 9 Location: Coimbra, Portugal

Hello,

Before posting my previous question I've seen that post.
I have tried to install those packages on a 32 bit system and it worked fine, but on a 64 bit it didn't.
After look for some posts I figured that your official linux distro is openSuse, so today I've installed it and it worked fine. I'm now able to compile the snap example in a 64 bit system.

I will use openSuse for now, but it would be great if you find a way to be compatible with some other distros than openSuse.

Anyway, thank you for your help. Hope you can check if those packages are good for ubuntu and help some others that want to use it.

bjackson · Joined: 12 Oct 2011 Posts: 178 Location: Simi Valley, CA

We should be compatible with all linux distros, openSUSE is just the main one we test. I am looking into the ubuntu 64-bit problem right now, and will try to resolve it soon.

tmccrack · Joined: 07 Feb 2012 Posts: 6

Not sure if this was fixed offline but I ran into the same problem installing on 11.10 64 bit. I tried two fixes, one was to edit the quicklink file from

BASEIPP=/usr/lib
BASEIPP64=/usr/lib64

to

BASEIPP=/usr/lib32
BASEIPP64=/usr/lib

The other was to make a symbolic link /usr/lib64 that pointed to /usr/lib. I went with the this option (not sure if it is correct). Snap and Wave have compiled from it and run fine.

bjackson · Joined: 12 Oct 2011 Posts: 178 Location: Simi Valley, CA

Yes, we have found this to work as well. I believe in a lot of 64-bit distros there is a lib64 folder which is why the script looks for it. In the new Ubuntu, this is not the case. Either of these solutions should work. We will change our instructions to make mention of this.
-Brian