More avast! antivirus fun
My desktop machine finally got fixed a couple of months ago, and yet somehow I never noticed until today that I had failed to reinstall my avast! antivirus. Ok, no problem; even though it's not in any Ubuntu repositories that I know of, I have the linux download page bookmarked...
Did I say no problem??? After I downloaded it and went to install it, gdebi told me:
Status: Error: Wrong architecture 'i386'
Really, avast!??? You don't run on 64 bit machines?!?
So I Googled for assistance, and happily found it.
With IA-32 compatibility package, there's no problem to run avast on 64bit linux distros.
...
On normal ubuntu, just force architecture and install the i386 package.
(from commandline, dpkg --force-architecture -i avast4workstation... etc.)
The next page I looked at was kind enough to give me the entire command, which I appreciate, because some days I'd really rather just copy and paste than type:
sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture avast4workstation_1.3.0-2_i386.deb
Another page mentioned that some necessary libraries might be missing even with ia32-libs already installed, and gave instructions to check and fix that:
First off download the deb file from here and ia32lib for avast.
...
ldd /usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avastgui
ldd /usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avast
...check that none of them say "Not found".
If any item listed by those commands says "Not found", you do need those additional libraries, so download them from the link above, and install:
sudo dpkg -i ia32-avast-libs.deb
And this page both confirmed for me (before I began) that all this really would work in Kubuntu, not just straight Ubuntu, and reminded me that I would need to add kernel.shmmax = 128000000 to my /etc/sysctl.conf somewhere, because avast's virus definitions file is so huge the program crashes otherwise.
And now all is well again.
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Did I say no problem??? After I downloaded it and went to install it, gdebi told me:
Status: Error: Wrong architecture 'i386'
Really, avast!??? You don't run on 64 bit machines?!?
So I Googled for assistance, and happily found it.
With IA-32 compatibility package, there's no problem to run avast on 64bit linux distros.
...
On normal ubuntu, just force architecture and install the i386 package.
(from commandline, dpkg --force-architecture -i avast4workstation... etc.)
The next page I looked at was kind enough to give me the entire command, which I appreciate, because some days I'd really rather just copy and paste than type:
sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture avast4workstation_1.3.0-2_i386.deb
Another page mentioned that some necessary libraries might be missing even with ia32-libs already installed, and gave instructions to check and fix that:
First off download the deb file from here and ia32lib for avast.
...
ldd /usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avastgui
ldd /usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avast
...check that none of them say "Not found".
If any item listed by those commands says "Not found", you do need those additional libraries, so download them from the link above, and install:
sudo dpkg -i ia32-avast-libs.deb
And this page both confirmed for me (before I began) that all this really would work in Kubuntu, not just straight Ubuntu, and reminded me that I would need to add kernel.shmmax = 128000000 to my /etc/sysctl.conf somewhere, because avast's virus definitions file is so huge the program crashes otherwise.
And now all is well again.
Crossposted from http://montuos.dreamwidth.org/922969.html ;
comments on original post. If you do not have a Dreamwidth ID and you want to read comments on protected posts there, you can log in with OpenID using your LJ ID. Also, I have 17 Dreamwidth invite codes if you want one.