how to install a .package?

[Nils Kassube]

Mauro Sanna wrote:
> On 13 September 2013 21:12, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Mauro Sanna wrote:
> > > Sorry, Autopackage only supports x86 32-bit systems, or 64-bit
> > > systems with compatibility libraries installed. Please install
> > > the
> > > compatibility libraries and rerun install.
> > > 
> > > I don't know what libraries I have to install.
> > > I've tried ia32-libs and libavahi-core7:i386 but without success.
> > 
> > Maybe Chris didn't write it clear enough in his reply but he
> > suggested to install these packages:
> > 
> > gcc-4.6-base:i386 libavahi-client3:i386 libavahi-common-data:i386
> > libavahi-common3:i386 libc6:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libgcc1:i386
> 
> Tried ... no success.

Hmm, then I would try to unpack the package manually and find out what 
library is missing (if any). After all the readme file mentions the 
ancient Ubuntu version 8.04. Perhaps the problem is only that the 
autopackage system (which seems to be abandoned) doesn't run on your 
current Ubuntu system or it expects a specific file which doesn't exist 
on your machine.

The package is a bash script which would unpack itself and download the 
autopackage files needed to install the files on your system. But the 
program would also run from your home directory.  To unpack it manually 
you can use the command

tail --bytes=1169788 LaCie\ Network\ Assistant\ 1.1\ Linux.package |
lzma -d | tar x

Then you get the executable in the bin subdirectory and with the command

ldd bin/LaCie_Network_Assistant

you can see the libraries used. If there is a memory address mentioned 
at the end of each line, it should work. At least on my Kubuntu 12.04 
machine all needed libraries were already installed and I can start the 
application with the command

bin/LaCie_Network_Assistant

If it doesn't work for you, please post the output of the ldd command 
and we can surely help you further.


Nils