Further Wierdness, was: Re: Download Question

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:25:59 -0700 (PDT), Bill Vance wrote:
>grep name /proc/cpuinfo ; uname -a
>model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
>model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
>model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
>model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
>model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
>model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
>model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
>model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz

The i7 family comes with CPUs providing a different count of cores.
Perhaps or maybe not
  ls -hAl /sys/devices/system/cpu/
shows the real count of cores. I guess you don't need to worry about
that. If I were you I would do some web research.

>Linux xpresso 3.2.0-85-generic-pae #122-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 26 16:33:15
>UTC 2015 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

That's the culprit, that cause that you can't install 64 bit
architecture packages. You're running a 32 bit architecture kernel.

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 02:18:05 -0400, Charles T. Bell wrote:
>What do you get with:
>dpkg -i --force-architecture name-of-package.deb

It's possible to run a 32 bit architecture kernel on a 64 bit
architecture hardware.
It's possible to run 32 bit software with a 64
bit kernel.
It's impossible to run a 64 bit kernel on 32 bit hardware.
It's impossible to run 64 bit software with a 32 bit kernel.

The upshot is, the OP has got a 32 bit install, that's ok on 64 bit
hardware, but the OP can't install the 64 bit software, so the OP needs
to download and install a 32 bit version of the software. Some software
isn't available for 32 bit architecture.

Openscam seems to be available for 32 bit, resp. could be build from
source for 32 bit architecture, assumed the provided package shouldn't
run on the OP's release of Kubuntu.

http://openscam.com/download.html

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:31:14 -0700 (PDT), Bill Vance wrote:
>> What's the output of
>>
>>  uname -m
>>
>> ? You might have a 64 bit architecture hardware, but you likely have
>> a 32 bit install.
>
>
>    i686

So try to run

  v=0.2.5

or what ever the current version might be, followed by

  sudo gdebi openscam_$v_$(uname -m).deb

in your case it's the same as running

  sudo gdebi openscam_$v_i686.deb

and if that shouldn't work, test all the 32 bit architectures, IOW
i486 and i386 too. Most likely you need to run

  sudo gdebi openscam_$v_i386.deb

this is the same as running

  sudo gdebi openscam_0.2.5_i386.deb

since the provided packages on the homepage claims to be compiled for
very old 32 bit architecture, i386.