[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#708236: [ia32-libs] fail to install on jessie amd64

[Goswin von Brederlow]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:50:10PM +0200, trophime wrote:
> Package: ia32-libs
> Version: 20120926
> Severity: normal
> 
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> Trying to install ia32-libs on Jessie on a amd64 machine
> I get the following error even after executing "dpkg --add-architecture i386"
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

That error comes from you doing "dpkg -i ia32-libs.deb" manually. You
then have a system that has ia32-libs unpacked but missing its
dependencies. And in such situations, when your system is in an
inconsistent state, apt-get always lists the inconsistenmcies and asks
you to run "apt-get -f install" to first get the system into a
consisten state.

So this is normal behaviour, not a bug in ia32-libs.

MfG
	Goswin

PS: Why do you want ia32-libs on jessie? You should not use that but
simply install the i386 packages for your software.