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i386 packages on amd64 (ia64)
icon1 Mikkel Meyer Andersen | icon4 December 7, 2007 at 17:56 (UTC) | icon3 No Comments »
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Today I tried to install MuPAD (a 32-bit application), but got the error:

package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)

Actually the support didn’t help much although it said that 64-bit systems were able to run MuPAD. It turned out they forgot to specify the right command:

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i mupad-4.0.2-1-linux-i386.deb

Instead they wrote that this should be executed (but as stated, it doesn’t work):

sudo dpkg -i mupad-4.0.2-1-linux-i386.deb

(I know it’s quite simple — maybe that’s why I didn’t find anything on my search — but I’m just posting this hoping it would help others.)