Problems Installing ia32-libs in Debian 64 bit Testing

[Mark Phillips]

Jason,

I tried what you suggested, and no change.

# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# aptitude update
# aptitude upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
# aptitude install ia32-libs

Same "error" messages. Lots of broken dependencies, and aptitude still
wants to replace gnome, and most of the other 64 bit apps with i386
versions.

I checked Debian.org for the package ia32-libs in testing, and got this
back:

Package: ia32-libs (1:0.5)
Transitional package to migrate ia32-libs to multiarch
This is a transitional package used to migrate the ia32-libs package to
true multiarch. It can be removed once nothing on the system depends on it.
This package requires multiarch to be enabled before it can be installed,
use "dpkg --add-architecture i386".

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Mark



On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jason Holtzapple <ml at bitflip.net> wrote:

> 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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