acroread fails to install on amd64

[Eugene San]

acroread fails to install on amd64.

attached patch should solve amd64 issue by using multi-arch approach.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Lalo Martins (lalo.martins)]

the patch makes the build exit successfully for me... but only builds acroread-common :-(

[Lalo Martins (lalo.martins)]

hmm, ok, now I feel stupid for writing that. Yes, the point is building only acroread-common. Then build the other packages with the patch for i386, and install them with :i386; things should work again. (Works for me.) Essentially what the patch does is fix the arches and dependencies for new-style multiarch.

[Liviu Andronic (landronimirc)]

I used the patch to publish a build of 'acroread' v9.5.1 on my PPA. [1]
# add-apt-repository ppa:landronimirc/experimental
# apt-get update
# aptitude

And then install 'acroread:i386'. It works for me on a fresh Precise install, 64-bit.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/experimental