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Install Crossover Trial on Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by Joshua Leonard-McKay

I am trying to install a crossover trial onto my Linux Ubuntu 11.10 but every time I try it says that it failed to download the package files and that I should check my internet connection, I have limited Linux exp so any help regarding this matter would be greatly appreciated.

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Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros) said : 		#1

I guess that you use software center for your installation of crossover.

When your internetconnection work beside this properly it may be helpfull to upgrade your sytstem first to the very latest version of Ubuntu:

Make a distribution upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04.

This is a LTS version, which stands for long term support and it is inherent trimmed to stability.

When you have luck the installation will work after this without any further doing.

Use the

"update-manager -> adjust the settings (left down corner)-> notify me about any new Ubuntu version" -> check in the ubuntu-manager main window

if it is needed, so that it presents you the latest distribution upgrade possibility.

!Important!:

Save your data first!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Why upgrade? Oneiric is just as supported as Precise....

How have you attempted to install the software?

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Joshua Leonard-McKay (darth-revan-2) said : 		#3

I have attempted to install the data through the crossover.deb you can download off of the site and it lead me to the software centre to install it. As it tries to download it fails and then an error comes up saying "Failed to download package files Check you internet connection"

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

what is the name of the deb file and where is it stored (case sensitive)

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Joshua Leonard-McKay (darth-revan-2) said : 		#5

the name of the deb file is: ia32-crossover_11.1.0-1_amd64.deb and it is stored in my downloads folder

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/ia32-crossover_11.1.0-1_amd64.deb

Will do it

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Joshua Leonard-McKay (darth-revan-2) said : 		#7

Oh ok thanks for your help guys much appreciated :)

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Joshua Leonard-McKay (darth-revan-2) said : 		#8

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

If you want to install or open a file and you do not explicitly define the path like I did, you MUST be in the same folder as the file. You cannot expect the OS to go hunting through your files to find what it thinks you mean. The default path when you open a terminal is:

/home/$USER

so the fact that the file was not in that folder explains why it wasn't found. If you had ran:

cd Documents

THEN ran the dpkg command you gave it would have also worked.