flashplugin-installer not multiarch co-installable

[pablomme]

Attempting to install flashplugin-installer:i386 on an amd64 machine running Ubuntu 12.10 causes apt-get to return the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 flashplugin-installer:i386 : Depends: update-notifier-common:i386 (>= 0.119ubuntu2) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

apt-get is apparently trying to install update-notifier-common:i386, but update-notifier-common is or architecture 'all', which I assume is an error in the packaging of flashplugin-installer.

This is an issue with the Steam client which requires the i386 flashplayer library, and this problem forces one to install it by hand. See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/36 .

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: flashplugin-installer:i386 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.19-lowlatency 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 21 13:32:20 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-26 (86 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.