IBM really don’t seem to get how to do software for Linux. The current process is to download a tar file and extract a .deb from it (which is like putting a .zip inside a .zip) and then install it as a standalone deb so you have to manage your own updates. The right way to do it is for IBM to host a repository. Really IBM it isn’t hard and here are the instructions. Downloading stuff from websites to install is something that Windows users do, it is an obsolete process. Anyhow, error 2 in the packaging is that it is only targeted at the i386 platform (which is nearly all the 32 bit intel architecture processors from the 386 onwards). Intel are now pushing the Atom processor for laptops which isn’t i386, although it is somewhat similar. The Atom is an lpia chip, (Low Power Intel Architecture) which is sufficiently different that the Debian package management... read more