Saturday, February 16, 2013

Wubi missing i386 architecture

Just a quick post to highlight a bug in the disk images for Wubi 64-bit. It's supposed to have multiarch support so you can install 32-bit packages, but it's missing. I don't know a lot about it - other than to notice the bug report and a bunch of user support requests, but it looks like the way around it is to run: 

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Note that this only affects users who installed 64-bit Ubuntu by running wubi.exe standalone. If you installed from the ISO or installed any other flavour e.g. Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu it wouldn't apply.
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  1. Some Random Ubuntu LoverJune 21, 2013 at 12:48 PM

    Hi, I'm Some Random Ubuntu Lover from Ask Ubuntu, I also noticed that Wubi will only install the 64-bit versions. I have only 32-bit computers.

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    1. bcbcJune 21, 2013 at 1:34 PM

      Wubi checks your computer architecture. It doesn't matter if you're running 32-bit Windows. Instead you need to identify and lookup your CPU to confirm (but I've never seen a case where Wubi has got it wrong). If you want to force 32-bit use: wubi.exe --32bit

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