I am running a amd64 machine with Debian testing. I need to build a python db connector that uses libmysqlclient-dev. However, I need to install the i386 version and not the amd64 version. From what I have read, (1) this python mysql connector needs the i386 mysql client headers to compile, and (2) the 64 bit version of mysql server runs just fine with the i386 client and the python connector. How the heck do I tell aptitude to install the i386 version of the libmysqlclient-dev?

Thanks!

Mark