I need help installing the AVAST Home Edition for LINUX.
I am running Kubuntu 6.10.
I tried installing the Tar version.
I extracted it.
I installed the gtk library, but when I go to launch avast it is compaining that it cannot get to the library, one of its own, that is in the lib directory.
So I am guessing I am doing something simple wrong.
Please can someone give me a step by step installation procedure.
OK I went to the console and used sudo dpkg to install.
However, here is the result.
I should have told you my system is a opteron 170 with 1 gig of ram (AMD64).
ralph@ralph-desktop:~$ sudodpkag -i avast4workstation_1.0.6-2_i386.deb
bash: sudodpkag: command not found
ralph@ralph-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg -i avast4workstation_1.0.6-2_i386.deb
Password:
dpkg: error processing avast4workstation_1.0.6-2_i386.deb (–install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
avast4workstation_1.0.6-2_i386.deb
ralph@ralph-desktop:~$
Hallo,
the *deb is a package for debian linux distribution. No fear, all linux distribution should be binary-compatible. The i386 is a convention, debian packages should work even on i386s (but also on everything more advanced, compatible with old good 386 :).
If Your package manager refuses to install these packages, use a package converter (alien etc.), or (and believe me this is the best) use the *.tar.gz package which works everywhere and has more advanced (~ more checks) install script.