How to install 2X Client on 64-bit ubuntu?

linux ubuntu 64-bit

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This is my first post ever, so let me know when it´s useful to you.

This package seams to be i386 specific, with no amd64 version available. Apparently linux system can cope with packages meant for different architectures using e.g. multiarch (ubuntu 11+). This is how I installed a working version of 2xclient in the Terminal on my Linux Mint 15 64 bit.

Download the appropriate package from www.2x.com
tell the system to accept i386 packages
```
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
```
update the available packages from repositories
```
sudo apt-get update
```
install the downloaded package (go to the directory first)
```
sudo dpkg -i 2XClient.deb
```
You may need to fix broken dependencies using apt-get (didn´t do anything in my case)
```
sudo apt-get -f install
```
Check which files where installed from the package
```
sudo dpkg -L '2xclient' 
```
View the library dependencies of the binary, in my case as follows
```
ldd /opt/2X/Client/bin/2XClient
```
in my case the missing dependencies are 2 files: libxml2.so.2 and libXpm.so.4
Find the packages that own these missing files
```
sudo dpkg -S 'libXpm.so.4'
sudo dpkg -S 'libxml2.so.2'
```
which resulted in the information below:

file package

libxml2.so.2 libxml2 :amd64

libXpm.so.4 libxpm4 :amd64
Install the packages containing the missing files, with a explicit architecture reference (i386)
```
sudo apt-get install libxpm4:i386
sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386
```
check your dependencies again

ldd /opt/2X/Client/bin/2XClient
Start up the 2xclient from your applications menu and you are good to go !! (I hope)

BTW jump from your 2x RDP session (remote desktop) to your own desktop with keyboard shortcut windows-alt-m

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user217816

Updated on September 18, 2022

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user217816 over 1 year
Installed it with .deb from 2X website. Now got:
```
> /opt/2X/Client/bin/2XClient: error while loading shared libraries: libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```
I tried to google for this problem but no luck (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-rvm/+bug/894311)
- Apache about 11 years
  
  try searching for the file with apt-file.
- user217816 about 11 years
  
  OK. # apt-file search libXpm.so.4 libxpm4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXpm.so.4 libxpm4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXpm.so.4.11.0 libxpm4-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXpm.so.4.11.0
- terdon about 11 years
  
  Where did you find a 64bit .deb for this? How did you manage to install it? According to their website: The 2X Client is also approved for the following 32-bit Linux distributions: Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10, OpenSuse 11.1, Fedora Core 9, Fedora Core 11, CentOs 5.2, VectorLinux 6.0. so there does not seem to be a 64bit client available.
- user217816 about 11 years
  
  OK. My question then is: how to install 2XClient on 64-bit ubuntu?
- Apache about 11 years
  
  askubuntu.com/questions/107230/…
- Apache about 11 years
  
  So you first install the application, and then the libraries it needs. With apt-file, you get to know what packages you have to install (32 bit versions!). Then ... it should work.
- user217816 about 11 years
  
  Well, it does not. And that forum thread does not help either.
- Apache about 11 years
  
  What do you mean by does not help? How far you got? Only this libXpm.so.4 missing? Did you install "libxpm4"?
user217816 about 11 years

Nope, it does not work # sudo apt-get install ia32-libs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
user217816 about 11 years

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 dpkg: error: unknown option --add-architecture
terdon about 11 years

@user217816, Ah yes Ubuntu have removed ia32-libs and replaced it with multiarch, sorry. Have a look at this thread.
Steve over 10 years

I managed to fix the dependencies using this, but now it just segfaults when I run it :( Any further clues?