This warrants it's own thread because forcing architecture is a funky and weird way of doing it. If you want to skip all these steps for the demo, PM me your email and i will e-mail you a proper 64 bit .deb of the World of Goo demo. i will not be sending anyone a deb of the game itself unless it is an e-mail address ending in @2dboy.com (hey 2dboy: you guys should probably offer 64 bit downloads anyways... i have no idea why your linux dude didn't do it, but i did the work for you if you want to post it on your official website.).

Ubuntuforums.org thread where i figured this out and posted it is here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1070885. i suck at linux but was able to modify directions for something else to work with the world of goo demo (which was fun enough that i purchased the game like an hour later :) ).

quote from that thread:

Here is the rapidshare of the demo:

http://rapidshare.com/files/198809801/goodemo_64.deb.html

someone want to get a torrent going of the demo or post it somewhere that allows more than 10 downloads?

2dboy: seriously, send me a PM or e-mail and ill email you a deb of both the 64 bit demo and full game so you guys can post that up for people trying the demo and paying customers. i <3 you for releasing a linux version, and im sure lots of people would <3 you even more if you had a 64 bit deb of the full game so people wouldn't have to deal with the hassle :)

Thanks for the awesome tutorial, earthpigg!  Woiks loik a chom.  I hope the game's devs pick up on this soon.

You forgot to add the ia32-libs dependency and the internal name can't have capitals in it (other wise if you add it to a local repository it appears twice when installed once with capitals and once all lower case).

But when I corrected it and repacked it the menu link wasn't created, I'm not sure what I did wrong.
Edit: I figured it out, here is the link for the corrected demo:
http://rapidshare.de/files/45361070/worldofgoodemo_1.40_amd64.deb.html

Attached is a shell script to convert the 32-bit Debian packages to 64-bit packages, if you prefer those. Unpack, mark executable, and run on the command line with the path to the 32-bit package as an argument.

#!/bin/sh -e<br /><br />DEB_IN=$1<br />DEB_OUT=$2<br /><br />[ -n "${DEB_OUT}" ] || DEB_OUT=`echo "$1" | sed 's/i386/amd64/'`<br /><br />if [ -z "${DEB_IN}" ] || [ "${DEB_IN}" = "${DEB_OUT}" ]<br />then<br /> echo "Usage: deb-from-i386-to-amd64.sh <input.deb> [<output.deb>]"<br /> exit 1<br />fi<br /><br />TMP_DIR=`mktemp -d`<br />dpkg-deb -x "${DEB_IN}" "${TMP_DIR}"<br />dpkg-deb -e "${DEB_IN}" "${TMP_DIR}/DEBIAN"<br />sed -i 's/i386/amd64/' "${TMP_DIR}"/DEBIAN/control<br />sed -i 's/Depends: /Depends: ia32-libs, /' "${TMP_DIR}"/DEBIAN/control<br />dpkg-deb -b "${TMP_DIR}" "${DEB_OUT}"<br />rm -r "${TMP_DIR}"<br />

soultaker is smarter than me :'(

[quote author=earthpigg link=topic=1464.msg9822#msg9822 date=1234819230]
soultaker is smarter than me :'(


Dude's a friggin genius! He managed to port World of Goo to Linux without breakin a sweat. Not to mention packaging it into all kinds of formats.

Well, that might address the problem of the missing item in the packager, but I have the problem with my 64 Bit Ubuntu 8.10 that I have to kill the process "pulseaudio" to make the game running (otherwise, the game crashes with a simple "Abort" in the shell).

Thank you Soultaker! It's a kind of automagic!

- Arand