Comment 19 for bug 900512

Contrary to what I wrote in #16, I now agree with Steve that this isn't a bug in ia32-libs or ia32-libs-multiarch.

I created a new virtual machine, installed a virgin copy of Quantal in it, updated, and then installed ia32-libs. It installed with no problems, bringing ia32-libs-multiarch with it. This implies that when those packages won't install, it's because of a configuration problem on the host.

Back on my precise host where I had this problem, after investigating I found that I had some pinned packages installed that were incompatible with ia32-libs in precise. Once I uninstalled those, I was able to install ia32-libs, and ia32-libs-multiarch with it, from the precise repository.

If you can find the problem on your host, maybe the workaround I posted in #17 will help.