[guard-of-terra]

I've installed the ubuntu version into my kubuntu. After launching it does nothing. Which isn't strange because the /usr/bin/xflux is a 32-bit binary and the package didn't request the required libraries. I have to consider it doesn't support 64-bit linux.

Come on. Linux is not Windows. Everybody and their dog already run 64-bit version. It makes no sense not to. All the software is built for 64-bit too. It's just a fact of life. Nobody uses 32-bit anymore except for netbooks and like.

[freehunter]

I'm not sure what you mean by "Linux is not Windows" in this context. In my experience, most installs of Windows these days (Windows 7 and Windows 8) are 64-bit installs. That's what is sold at Best Buy on their desktops and laptops for example. On the contrary, when a user goes to install Ubuntu, they're recommended to use 32-bit. When I'm on forums, people mention compatibility problems with 64-bit Linux and recommend 32 bit instead. Maybe I'm outdated on that information? Can you elaborate?

[guard-of-terra]

Do you remember Firefox trying to cancel 64-bit build for Windows? Stating they have a lot of extra bugs in it?

In Windows they still run 32-bit software on 64-bit OS, but a typical Linux install will have not a single 32-bit program.

That's why not having a 64-bit version is pathetic.

[jff]

In fact, the majority of software installed on my 64-bit Windows 7 system is 32-bit. Sad.

[freehunter]

Oh, I see what you mean. My apologies. Thanks!

[guard-of-terra]

I've also installed redshift and redshift-gtk as suggested and they both crash on start.

Altough redshift doesn't if supplied with all the required parameters outright.

[longwave]

Create a config file in ~/.config/redshift.conf with the manual parameters you use, and redshift-gtk should work.

Sample config is at http://jonls.dk/2010/10/redshift-1-6-released/ - I only need to set lat and lon to get it to run, though I also have temp-night set for my personal preference.

[guard-of-terra]

Thanks, it works that way. Still I have to ask: are they crazy to make their program crash silently when no config is present?

[longwave]

I seem to remember it looks for gnome-clock to discover your location, and gives up if that's not found, although the GTK version does unhelpfully just exit without a message. It can't work without knowing your latitude and longitude to work out sunset/sunrise times.

[guard-of-terra]

redshift segfaults actually.

[aw3c2]

Please submit that to the author. Segfaults should not happen.

[robotmay]

I have it running fine under 64-bit Ubuntu, sounds like it might be a problem with KDE. Have you tried looking around for other packages for it?

[guard-of-terra]

Should I? I've added an entire repository, they have all means to deliver just the right package to me, and they fail it.

This doesn't sound like a KDE problem:

    % ldd `which xflux`
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf773b000)
        libXxf86vm.so.1 => not found
        libXext.so.6 => not found
        libX11.so.6 => not found
        libstdc++.so.6 => not found
        libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf76f6000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => not found
        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf754e000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf773c000)

[jb17]

I use xflux on a 64-bit Debian system and it works. I'm not sure, but you might have to specify the location parameters when starting it.