[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#698945: Bug#698945: The working settings on machine 1

[Goswin von Brederlow]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:05:34AM +0000, Holger Weiss wrote:
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> Debian does not have a libXm.so.3 at all, only libXm.so.2 and libXm.so.4,
> which are in lesstif2 and libmotif4 respectively.
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> I understand, that using multiarch is refering to "apt-get" and can be used as "apt-get install package:arch" .
> Here is what happens with multiarch:
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> # dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
> i386
> # dpkg --print-architecture
> amd64
> # apt-get install libmotif4:i386
> .....
> Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT: (removed)
>   libmotif4
> Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden installiert: (installed)
>   libmotif4:i386
> 0 aktualisiert, 1 neu installiert, 1 zu entfernen und 24 nicht aktualisiert.
> Es müssen noch 0 B von 1.332 kB an Archiven heruntergeladen werden.
> Nach dieser Operation werden 602 kB Plattenplatz freigegeben.
> Möchten Sie fortfahren [J/n]?
> 
> I cannot have both versions i386 and amd64 libs at the same time on my system, is this correct ?

That is correct. libmotif4 has not been multiarchified, which means it
has not been changed so that libmotif4:amd64 and libmotif4:i386 can be
installed in parallel. You have to pick one or the other until it is.

That also means all package depending on libmotif4 need to be either
all i386 or all amd64. But in you case that seems to be only your 3rd
party 32bit program. So there is no problem with having only
libmotif4:i386.

MfG
	Goswin