Avast 64 for linux

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I am looking for a 64 bit version for Ubuntu linux. Is there one?

2

Not sure…the system requirements suggest not:

Any Linux distribution (x86 platform only)
http://www.avast.com/en-gb/linux-home-edition#tab3
3

With IA-32 compatibility package, there’s no problem to run avast on 64bit linux distros.

regards,
pc

4

How do you install the IA-32 package to get avast to run on 64bit? I have the same question as EasyE, I have Ubuntu Natty Norwal 11.04 x64 edition.

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On normal ubuntu, just force architecture and install the i386 package.
(from commandline, dpkg --force-architecture -i avast4workstation… etc.)

regards,
pc

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So I’ve tried installing ia32-libs and also avast4workstation_1.3.0-2_i386.deb via --force-architecture. AT first it looked like it was going to run, then it suddenly crashed. OK, so I figured fire it back up right? Not so easy.

OS: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
ARCH: amd64
RAM: 16G

Now every time I run ‘avastgui’ I get a message box:
An error occured in avast! engine: Invalid arguement

On the console when I run this, I see:
$ avastgui
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so

When I run with --verbose I get a different popup window BEFORE the above (still get the second, just have this one first):
catalog file for domain ‘avast’ not found
Details:
03:29:24 PM: catalog file for domain ‘wxstd’ not found.
03:29:24 PM: looking for catalog ‘avast’ in path ‘/usr/lib/avast4workstation/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/avast4workstation/share/locale/en_US:/usr/lib/avast4workstation/share/locale::/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/share/locale/en_US:/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/share/locale:/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en_US:/usr/share/locale:/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/locale/en_US:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/local/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/local/share/locale/en_US:/usr/local/share/locale:./en_US/LC_MESSAGES:./en_US:.:/usr/lib/avast4workstation/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/avast4workstation/share/locale/en:/usr/lib/avast4workstation/share/locale::/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/share/locale/en:/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/share/locale:/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/share/locale/en:/usr/share/locale:/usr/lib/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/lib/locale/en:/usr/lib/locale:/usr/local/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES:/usr/local/share/locale/en:/usr/local/share/locale:./en/LC_MESSAGES:./en:.::’.
03:29:24 PM: catalog file for domain ‘avast’ not found.

Installed libraries and avast version:
$ dpkg -l | grep ia32
ii ia32-libs 2.7ubuntu26.1 ia32 shared libraries for use on amd64 and i
$ dpkg -l | grep avast
ii avast4workstation 1.3.0 avast! antivirus for Linux

Is there any hope for me? I can’t seem to get this to run.

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ok; apparently what happened was I updated the virus definitions, and experienced a different bug, where the solution is updating the kernel.shmmax

$ sudo sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=128000000

I still get the console error messages and some Gtk stuff, but it appears to be running fine now.