On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:12:38 Jack Chastain wrote:
> > OK - Back on this today...
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Chris Knadle
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 15:53:56 dragorn wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:19:25PM -0500, Jack Chastain wrote:
> [...]
> > > > You're trying to run a complex GUI 32bit app on a 64 bit system - you
> > > > will have to install basically a complete 32bit system alongside the
> > > > 64bit.
> > >
> > > What's needed is "adding the i386 architecture" on this amd64 system.
> > >
> > > i.e.:
> > >   sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
> >
> > This gives no  action at all - I thought I sould check with "dpkg -l |
> grep
> > i386" and sure enough - lots of stuff. Apparently, that is already
> > installed?
>
> Either that or you're running i386 rather than amd64.  Default Ubuntu
> seems to
> be i386 unless you get an alternate download.  Tell you what -- check.  :-)
>
>    $ dpkg --print-architecture
>    amd64
>
>
jack@jack-SVE1713CCXB:~/Downloads/DraftSight$ dpkg --print-architecture
amd64


I'm out of time for the morning - I will get to the rest later. I am also
going to look at LibreCad, I suppose - I am not necessarily wedded to
DraftSight (particularly if they are going to remove my install and make me
go through this now and again) - I just need a useable 2D system for making
accurate drawings I can build from. the easier to use, the better (I have
been using Visio for years)

I will have a few hours tonight to maybe do a little more - Friday may be
better play time though.

Thanks all!

JC

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