Ubuntu 10.10 Boinc Error

Just as the title says I getting an error after installing Ubuntu 10.10 64bit on a new machine. After doing updates and installing BOINC I was getting an error of "Recent Lost Result blah blah blah" and "Application version has unsupported platform i686". I found that a libs package was no longer included in the 10.10 build. To correct this error run the following commands from terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

I thought about putting this in the linux help thread but it relates only to Ubuntu at this time.

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Originally Posted by Wolfsburg18

Just as the title says I getting an error after installing Ubuntu 10.10 64bit on a new machine. After doing updates and installing BOINC I was getting an error of "Recent Lost Result blah blah blah" and "Application version has unsupported platform i686". I found that a libs package was no longer included in the 10.10 build. To correct this error run the following commands from terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

I thought about putting this in the linux help thread but it relates only to Ubuntu at this time.

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I used this link:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_on_Linux

for both my BOINC installs combined with this information:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=258619

Hope this helps.

The 32bit libraries haven't been included in the 64bit build since ... as long as I can remember. Some time before 10.10 anyway. People seem to expect it them to be since they are in Windows, I think, but ... this ain't Windows. With Linux a 64bit OS really is a 64bit OS, not a 64bit and 32bit and 16bit OS.
Just for the record, I've fallen for it before more than once so I'm not being elitist in any way, it's just how the thing is.

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Originally Posted by D_A

The 32bit libraries haven't been included in the 64bit build since ... as long as I can remember. Some time before 10.10 anyway. People seem to expect it them to be since they are in Windows, I think, but ... this ain't Windows. With Linux a 64bit OS really is a 64bit OS, not a 64bit and 32bit and 16bit OS.
Just for the record, I've fallen for it before more than once so I'm not being elitist in any way, it's just how the thing is.

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Looking over the 10.04 source files that I have some of the 32 bit libraries were included, in specific the one required to by Boinc. Not sure why this changed but thought I would help others out who might use linux vs that evil OS called windows.

I'm running 10.04 64bit and I can assure you I had to install the 32bit libraries myself, just as I did with 9.04 and 8.10

I have ubuntu 10.4 64 on 3 machines and never had to install the 32 bit libraries. Only thing I changed was adding a line in the cc_config.XML. No problems.

I'm not 100% sure on this but if you install boinc from the Ubuntu Software Center in 10.10 it brings in the libraries it needs versus using Synaptic Package Manager then you need to also sudo apt-get the 32 bit libs. I believe that's how it was the last few crunchers I set up on Ubuntu 64 after 10.10 was out, but my memory is dim on this.