Re: Problems Installing ia32-libs in Debian 64 bit Testing

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Author: Jason Holtzapple
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Problems Installing ia32-libs in Debian 64 bit Testing
On 09/20/2013 09:20 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a Debian testing amd64 laptop. Only testing, no unstable or
> experimental. I need to install ia32-libs to run eclipse in 32 bit mode
> for android development.
>
> However, I get a slew of conflicts, and it seems that aptitude wants to
> replace a lot of my 64 bit aps with 32 bit apps. Apps like gnome,
> gnome-core, empathy, etc. Is this normal or necessary?


You should be using multiarch:

# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get update

And then try again. As far as I know ia32-libs is deprecated.

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