Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Installing Amazon MP3 Downloader under 64bit Linux

Great! I want to buy and download MP3's from Amazon. Poop! I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64bit, but there's only a 32bit debian package available. Well here's how you fix that...

  1. Download the 9.04 32 bit debian installer from Amazon. Currently located here.
  2. Once downloaded, force the installation of the product using the command: sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture amazonmp3.deb
  3. Now go grab a program called getlibs. This is a script that will download missing libraries for an installed package. Currently you can get this tool here.
  4. Finally run sudo getlibs /usr/bin/amazonmp3 from a terminal session
You're good to go....

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