How to install Wink for Ubuntu 8.04 [64-bit]

**cadcam** · October 3rd, 2010

huh. it is possible the 64 bit version was overwitten when i formatted last week, as I didn't check the image to see which one I installed......suck. ok, i'm gong to reinstall, with the 64 image, and then get back to you.. (luckily, installs of ubuntu take about, a second)

i686 means clearly does pertain to x86......damn. my bad. will write back once i reload.

thanks,
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**stevestark** · October 4th, 2010

what files do i need for karmic 9.10?

**linuxed** · October 4th, 2010

Originally Posted by stevestark

what files do i need for karmic 9.10?

Ignore the Ubuntu version listed in the thread's title. The instructions should work for any recent version of Ubuntu including 9.10 or 10.04.

**Jamina1** · July 29th, 2011

I can't get this to work on 11.04. I am stuck at

Code:

ematheson@elanor-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i ~/Desktop/wink*.deb
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
 package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
dpkg: regarding .../wink_1.5.1060-3ubuntu1_i386.deb containing wink:i386:
 libexpat1 conflicts with wink (<= 1.5.1060-4)
  wink:i386 (version 1.5.1060-3ubuntu1) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing /home/ematheson/Desktop/wink_1.5.1060-3ubuntu1_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing wink:i386
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /home/ematheson/Desktop/wink_1.5.1060-3ubuntu1_i386.deb

I tried the suggestion of sudo apt-get remove wink and received

Code:

ematheson@elanor-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get remove wink
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Virtual packages like 'wink' can't be removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.

I need this to work. I've installed everything else that's needed but libexpat1 is preventing me from installing wink. What do I do?

**linuxed** · July 29th, 2011

Code:

sudo dpkg --purge wink
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
sudo dpkg --force-architecture --force-conflicts -i wink*.deb
sudo rm /usr/lib/wink/libexpat.so.0
sudo ln -s /lib32/libexpat.so.1 /lib32/libexpat.so.0
sudo ln -s /lib32/libexpat.so.0 /usr/lib/wink/libexpat.so.0

**thierrybo** · November 21st, 2012

My successful wink installation with Ubuntu 12.04 64bits

Code:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i ~/wink*.deb
sudo rm /usr/lib/wink/libexpat.so.0
sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.5.2 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.0
sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.0 /usr/lib/wink/libexpat.so.0