upgrade problems with libtiff4

[Michael Nagel]

i have problems running apt-get upgrade and they are related to problems with the libtiff4 package. see the log below:

nailor@needle:~100$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libtiff4 : Breaks: libtiff4:i386 (!= 3.9.5-2ubuntu1) but 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1 is installed
 libtiff4:i386 : Breaks: libtiff4 (!= 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1) but 3.9.5-2ubuntu1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
nailor@needle:~100$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libtiff4
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libtiff4
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/144 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: error processing libtiff4 (--configure):
 libtiff4:amd64 3.9.5-2ubuntu1 cannot be configured because libtiff4:i386 is in a different version (3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1)
dpkg: error processing libtiff4:i386 (--configure):
 libtiff4:i386 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1 cannot be configured because libtiff4:amd64 is in a different version (3.9.5-2ubuntu1)
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 libtiff4
 libtiff4:i386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
nailor@needle:~100$ sudo apt-get -f upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libtiff4
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/144 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: error processing libtiff4 (--configure):
 libtiff4:amd64 3.9.5-2ubuntu1 cannot be configured because libtiff4:i386 is in a different version (3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1)
dpkg: error processing libtiff4:i386 (--configure):
 libtiff4:i386 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1 cannot be configured because libtiff4:amd64 is in a different version (3.9.5-2ubuntu1)No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already

Errors were encountered while processing:
 libtiff4
 libtiff4:i386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libtiff4 3.9.5-2ubuntu1 [modified: usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 7 10:53:12 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111129.1)
SourcePackage: tiff
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)