Can't install lib64stdc++6 due to unmet dependencies

[Lloyd Dewolf]

ENV: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/ubuntu-12.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lib64stdc++6
sudo: unable to resolve host u
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 lib64stdc++6:i386 : Depends: lib64gcc1:i386 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                     Depends: libc6-amd64:i386 (>= 2.14) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ apt-cache policy lib64stdc++6
lib64stdc++6:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.6.3-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
     4.6.3-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages

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[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I get the same error message when attempting to install lib64stdc++6 on Ubuntu 12.04.

[Lloyd Dewolf (lloydde)]

Same issue occurs in 12.10 alpha 2
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/quantal/alpha-2/

ubuntu@ubuntu-1210:~$ sudo apt-get install lib64stdc++6
sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu-1210
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 lib64stdc++6:i386 : Depends: lib64gcc1:i386 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                     Depends: libc6-amd64:i386 (>= 2.14) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
ubuntu@ubuntu-1210:~$

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

was this a temporary situation, where the eglibc and gcc-4.7 builds were not in sync?

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I still get the error about unmet dependencies when attempting to install this package. Ubuntu 12.04 64bit (recently ran apt-get update).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gcc-4.7 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Reopening as this is still reproducible on 64bits 12.04. To rule out problems with mirrors, I switched to the main server before running update and attempting to install it.

[Raymond Marks (raymond-marks)]

I'm also experiencing the same issue listed above. I've tried a number of steps (removing, upgrading, updating, etc) ... to no avail. I'd be interested to hear any resolution.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
lib64stdc++6:i386 : Depends: lib64gcc1:i386 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-amd64:i386 (>= 2.14) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Lloyd Dewolf (lloydde)]

This appears to be resolved.

ENV: ubuntu-13.04-beta2-server-amd64.iso

$ sudo apt-get install lib64stdc++6
[sudo] password for devstack:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gcc-4.7-base:i386 lib64gcc1:i386 libc6:i386 libc6-amd64:i386 libgcc1:i386
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-4.7-base:i386 lib64gcc1:i386 lib64stdc++6:i386 libc6:i386
libc6-amd64:i386 libgcc1:i386
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
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Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main lib64stdc++6 i386 4.7.3-1ubuntu1 [321 kB]
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[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

Not resolved on 12.04 LTS - as it's an LTS release which is still distributed (and even promoted over the latest 13.xx releases) it should have it's fixed back ported to 12.04

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release