Finally with an other pair of eyes we were able to figure out the magic for this. Attached is the patch needed to get cricket running on x86_64-linux machines.
** Attachment added: "Format addition for x86_64-linux machines" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4703704/Format.pm.x86_64-linux.patch -- Current values not available: Architecture x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi not supported yet https://launchpad.net/bugs/64403 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs