Ardour 32 bits on 64 bits PC with 32 bits OS

Hi,

Why is it not possible to run a 32 bits installer of Ardour on a 64 bits machine with a 32 bits OS (Ubuntu Studio 32 bits) ?

Regards,

A.

Who says it is not possible? What error do you get?

Here is the error message :

Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing Ardour…

Welcome to the Ardour installer

Ardour will be installed for user woupida in /opt

Architecture is x86_64
Checking for required disk space

!!! ERROR !!! Can’t locate .size file for x86_64 bundle.
This package is broken or does not support x86_64.

Yes, it looks as if we use the processor architecture and not the OS word size to determine what to install. This is not intentional, and we’ll try to fix it in the future. Not entirely sure why you’d want to run a 32 bit version of Linux on a 64 bit machine - it is possible to have a 32 bit runtime environment even though the kernel is 64 bit.

What makes you certain that you have a 32 bit version of Linux on your system?

woupida:
Try reporting the output of uname -a (i.e. open a terminal and type that command), that will give the information on the exact kernel running on your machine.

Yeah I’m shure I’m working on a 32 bits OS.
But Paul is right : I can obvisoulsy install run an ardour 32 bits on 64 bits OS.

Thanks for this simple idea I didn’t even thought of !!!

I did’nt think of (and not I didn’t thought of), sorry.
French to english is not that much easy :wink:

@woupida: we’d still like to know what uname -a says on your system

@paul
uname -a gives :

Linux ********* 4.4.0-36-lowlatency #55-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 11 18:51:36 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It’s definitely a 64 bits OS since I configured 8Go of RAM.

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@woupida

uname -a says it is a 64 bit OS, and you said it was 64 bit in your last post(Though through PAE you can use a 32 bit OS with more than 4GB of Ram for the record), but in your first post you said it was 32 bit OS and tried to run the 32 bit installer(3rd post)? I am a bit confused here. Have you already changed OSes or something?

   Seablade

Yes, sorry no to have indicated that I already had changed OS for a 64 bits.

But I have the same error when trying to install a 32 bits ardour on a 32 ou 64 bits OS :

Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing Ardour…

Welcome to the Ardour installer

Ardour will be installed for user woupida in /opt

Architecture is x86_64
Checking for required disk space

!!! ERROR !!! Can’t locate .size file for x86_64 bundle.
This package is broken or does not support x86_64.

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