google-earth works, but marked as broken due to dependencies

[JMB]

Hi,

I ran in a problem with your final version of Xubuntu Saucy Salamander
(the flavour is not decisive in this case ... just for clarification).

What I did:
Fresh installation with USB-stick of release version (final).
Installed additional packages via synaptic - including:
   googleearth-package
Built .deb as user in usual way:
   make-googleearth-package
Installed created package (now in new version compared to 13.04):
   sudo dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.0-1_amd64.deb
Resulting in the error:
   dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of googleearth:
   googleearth depends on ia32-libs-multiarch; however:
   Package ia32-libs-multiarch is not installed.

Anoying is, that google-earth seems to run flawlessly - but can not
configure due to the missing ia32-libs-multiarch which is no longer
part of repos since this latest 13.10 release - which is not saucy ... ;-)

So the program works (better than under 13.04!)
but has to be removed via:
   sudo apt-get install -f
to regain an updatable system.

So there are some questions comming to my mind:
1) Why is ia32-libs-multiarch not installable with 13.10 ???
2) Why is the googleearth-package not adapted
     if package is not needed anyway?
3) What's the workaround to get wrong broken bit away to have an
     updatable system and having the usable google-earth program ???

From my perspective Google-Earth should work flawlessly under
the future 14.04 LTS ... if its name `Trusty' should really mean anything ...
so this bug should be fixed in time.

Many thanks for your help - a workaround for 13.10 would be
much appreciated.

Regards,
JMB

P.S.:
lsb_release -rd
  Description: Ubuntu 13.10
  Release: 13.10
  # final Xubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander
apt-cache policy googleearth-package
  googleearth-package:
    Installed: 1.0.0
    Candidate: 1.0.0
    Version table:
   *** 1.0.0 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/multiverse amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: googleearth-package 1.0.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 18 22:02:20 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-17 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: googleearth-package
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Adnan Hodzic (fooctrl)]

This problem has been resolved in googleearth-package 1.1.0 which is available in Debian Sid.

I'm not sure if this version will be synchronized with Saucy repositories, in case it won't I could upload it to googleearth-package ppa.

[JMB (jmb-tux)]

It would be nice if the problem gets fixed in Saucy - but
as even the gs-Problem causing evince not to work
(without using the workaround) was not fixed in Raring
(but in Saucy) I doubt the the synchronization will happen.
I would appreciate (in that case) if you could provide
the working package via a ppa and announce it
appropriately.
Many thanks for your help!

[Adnan Hodzic (fooctrl)]

Since it doesn't seem like Saucy will pull version available in Debian Jessie/Sid. I uploaded version 1.1.0 to googleearth-package PPA which takes care of this problem.

https://launchpad.net/~absinthesyringe/+archive/googleearth-package

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mathieu Marquer (slasher-fun)]

Fixed a few versions ago.