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This article is provided to serve as additional support for those people running Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13, ElementaryOS, and any derivatives based on them. It was created with help from our diverse Linux community. Many thanks to them!If you are installing CrossOver for the first time in Ubuntu 12.04 or a derivative based on that version, you are in the right place but skip to installation.
If you are running a Debian or Ubuntu based derivative and receive the error:
Dependency is not satisfiable: dpkg (>= 1.16.5)
You are in the right place. You have likely received this error because you're trying to install CrossOver 12.5.1 or later via the debian based installer. Unfortunately, this will not work.
If you would like to update CrossOver, you will need to download the .bin installer instead. Before doing so, please completely remove the debian installer from your system.
If you want to keep the applications you've already installed in CrossOver, please archive your bottles before starting this procedure.
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First run:
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Then run:
If CrossOver was installed with the Ubuntu Software Center, the place-holder that method leaves behind will need to be removed.
for 32bit:
for 64bit:
And, if the terminal gave this or similar output from the above command:
The additional pieces will need to be removed manually:
Please be careful with this command!
Now that you are in a clean state, download the latest version of CrossOver and continue with the installation instructions.
At the time of this writing, 13.0.1 is the latest version of CrossOver.
Installation
Update your packages:
Change to the directory where bin installer is located and make it executable:
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Then install it:
The caveat with the .bin installer is that it will install whether the libraries CrossOver needs to run are present or not. CrossOver currently needs the following packages to be present in order to work as expected.
for 64bit:
After the above is completed, the following command will provide most of the libraries CrossOver makes use of though some libraries may not be necessary:
for 64bit:
Miscellaneous Information
CrossOver 12.5.1 is the first version with true multi-arch support
Ubuntu 12.04 is the first version with skeleton support for multiarch. So why don't they play nicely?
'In 12.04, the package management tools have not fully been updated to be multiarch-aware.'
In that, there are varying degrees of bugs with implementing multiarch support that are not resolved with Ubuntu 12.04 and may never be resolved in Ubuntu 12.04. Because of this, it's nearly impossible to properly support Ubuntu 12.04 with a debian installer.