Downloaded it but found it to be 32bit.

Anyone tried 'forcing' into a 64bit system.

In a terminal, install the downloaded .deb package like this (ignoring the architecture): sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i DraftSight.deb

If it complains about missing dependencies, then just simply install them using apt-get. In my case, it complained only about "libdirectfb-extra": sudo apt-get install libdirectfb-extra

After all missing dependencies have been installed, run the above dpkg command again.

DraftSight gets installed in the following directory: /opt/dassault-systemes/draftsight

Cheers, Peter

Seems to work well.

Might try it with some files from work tomorrow.

Chris

On 12 March 2011 19:00, Peter Reutemann fracpete@waikato.ac.nz wrote:

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In a terminal, install the downloaded .deb package like this (ignoring the architecture):  sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i DraftSight.deb

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And if you want to uninstall it again, use the following command in a terminal:  sudo  dpkg --remove dassault-systemes-draftsight

Cheers, Peter

Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/%C2%A0          Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug