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Signed up for the trial, downloaded CrossOver on my Piexelbook, picked a "basic app" to see how this works, went with WinRAR and failed.
Several missing dependencies/packages.
Tried several of the hits in this forum pointing to doing manual update on the Linux distro that comes on the Chromebook.
Added i386 architecture.
Manually forced update to /etc/debian_version 11.1

It shouldn't be that hard to get just WinRar going? Am I missing some fundamental step in the what appeared to be a simple enable Linux/download crossover/install a windows app process?

Thanks!

Hi Steve,

If you did not manage to fix your dependency issues, then even relatively simple apps will be unable to install with CrossOver. Are you able to install the dependencies, or are you getting error message when prompted to install them? And did you run "sudo apt update" after enabling the i386 architecture?

Thanks in advance for your patience with this. These dependency issues for our Chrome OS are a relatively new bug, and we are investigating a fix for a future CrossOver release to allow for a much smoother process.

Best,
Meredith

I'm afraid I can't figure out how to resolve those.
I have little time to invest in this and I'm afraid I still haven't figured out how to subscribe to this forum so I didn't see an email saying I got a reply.
Also, can't seem to find a way to copy the error and paste them here.
I've lost my beta-testing mojo :)

~$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Ign:2 https://storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/93 buster InRelease
Hit:3 https://storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/93 buster Release
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

The above is from today. It should be all good, based on some other posts.
Picked a common app under Utilities, WinRAR 5.x
Missing 32-bit libfreetype.so.6 library
Missing 32-bit libtpng*.so library
Missing 32-bit libX11.so.6 library
Missing 32-bit lobXext.so.6 library

Need to do this manually one by one or CrossOver should be figuring this out?

Update...
Wasted most of the night with ./cxfix --auto and manually resolving dependencies... still stuck with
The following issues can be fixed:

• https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/Diag/missingdridrivers (32-bit)
  apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386

• https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/Diag/missinglibgl (32-bit)
  apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386

• https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/Diag/missinglibglu (32-bit)
  apt-get install libglu1-mesa:i386

...and none of those would work, as we're back to square 1, i.e.
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 : Depends: libllvm7:i386 (>= 1:7~svn298832-1~) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Am about to give up with same bad taste I had when I spent tons of hours to get Steam going for the kids under wine several years ago.

Though CrossOver, being a paid product, had resolved all of those out of the box.

Trial expired today. Any more ideas or I better get a Win11 laptop for LockDown browser tests?

Thanks!
Steve

Hi Steve,

CrossOver should be finding the missing libraries for you. I'd recommend opening a support ticket: you'll be able to restart your trial if you fully remove CrossOver from your system and then reinstall it. I'm not entirely sure why you're getting an error about broken packages.

Best,
Meredith