AMD 64 bit processors

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#1 December 30, 2008

I use an Acer Aspire 5101 Laptop with an AMD Turion64 processor. I have successfully installed Ubuntu v8.10/64, everything works fine including the Wifi. The exception is that Adobe Reader doesn't seem to have a 64 bit version available and the 32 bit version doesn't work on the 64 bit processor (says it's the wrong architecture), But at least we have Evince to take its place.

#2 December 30, 2008

If you have a .deb, use dpkg with force-arch:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture foo.deb

#3 January 5, 2009

Update: I have overcome the problem by using Evince, I also found that with Ubuntu v8.10/64 KompoZer was quitting when using the drop down menu's with a mouse. My way out of this problem was to install Mozilla SeaMonkey instead of Firefox, Thunderbird and KompoZer. All is working well now.