# Mender client with Ubuntu x64 architecture r

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-client-with-ubuntu-x64-architecture-r/1026>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [September 17, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-client-with-ubuntu-x64-architecture-r/1026 "2019-09-17T06:44:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-client-with-ubuntu-x64-architecture-r/1026/2 "2019-09-17T08:26:38Z")

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Hello @DipinPK and welcome to the Mender community.

For Ubuntu support and other binary style distributions we provide a tool called `mender-convert`,

> **[GitHub - mendersoftware/mender-convert: An easy way to integrate the Mender...](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-convert)**
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> An easy way to integrate the Mender client into an existing image - GitHub - mendersoftware/mender-convert: An easy way to integrate the Mender client into an existing image

Please note that we currently have a newer (unreleased) version of this tool which does have some initial support for x86\_64 and has been tested one of the Ubuntu images. More about this here,

> [@New iteration of the mender-convert tool](https://hub.mender.io/t/new-iteration-of-the-mender-convert-tool/824):
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> Hi, As you might be aware of we have a tool we call mender-convert to enable support for Mender on binary distributions. We are happy that this has worked out, enabling people to securely update their devices on non-Yocto devices. Even though we are happy with the functionality of the current tool, there are a couple drawbacks in the current design of the tool, which we want to improve. We looked hard at the current code and decided, to achieve the desired design we would need to do a re-wri…

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