It failed to install when I tried to install the zSNES program, this is a vital piece of software for 32-bit emulation.

[Robert mills]

Binary package hint: ia32-libs

It returned the error message: "E: /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_2.2ubuntu18_amd64.deb: unable to create `./usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2'" on Ubuntu 8.10. This might be a conflict with the 180 range of Nvidia drivers as, looking the error up, it exists when 173 drivers are installed, but not 177. It is ia32-libs version 2.2ubuntu18.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: unable to create `./usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2': No such file or directory
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: ia32-libs None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.list]
SourcePackage: ia32-libs
Title: package ia32-libs None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.list] failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `./usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2': No such file or directory
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ia32-libs - 2.7ubuntu4

---------------
ia32-libs (2.7ubuntu4) jaunty; urgency=low

  * fetch-and-build:
    - add libsqlite3-0, needed as a dependency of libnss3-1d (LP: #326311).
    - add libmikmod2 and libsmpeg0 needed as dependencies of libsdl-mixer1.2
      (LP: #154883).
    - add libcanberra-gtk-module and its dependencies (libcanberra-gtk0,
      libcanberra0 and libtdb1)
    - add libsdl-image1.2 and python2.5 (LP: #277454)
    - add missing dependencies:
      - libcelt0 for libjack0
      - libsmbios2 for libhal1
      - libspeexdsp1 and liboil0.3 for libpulsecore9
      - libavahi-common3 and libavahi-client3 for libpulse-browse0
      - libgail18 for libgnomecanvas2-0
    - drop libartsc0, which is now obsolete.
  * debian/rules:
    - automatically create all missing .so symlinks in /lib32 and /usr/lib32 as
      the manual list of links was always out of sync and incomplete
      (LP: #277772, #309841).
  * Freshen packages (as of Jaunty beta1) (LP: #338145, #325098, #337210)

 -- Fabien Tassin <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:48:50 +0100

[kyleabaker (kyleabaker)]

This bug appears to still be open in Jaunty. I just attempted to install flash and the nspluginwrapper, but they fail with the same error message, just v2.7 rather than 2.2:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_2.7ubuntu4_amd64.deb: unable to create `./usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2'

[Mathieu Marquer (slasher-fun)]

Reopening, this bug is still present in Ubuntu Jaunty

[Mathieu Marquer (slasher-fun)]

Mmm.. actually reporting a new bug