Comment 6 for bug 980231

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 980231] Re: Unable to install Google Earth in Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit)

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 08:55:45PM -0000, Colin Mills wrote:
> 2) I would draw your attention to my bug report which states that I was
> unable to install ia32-libs (an Ubuntu package?) from the command line, as
> I got the error report "The following packages have unmet dependencies.
> ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch E: Unable to correct problems,
> you have held broken packages."

That's true enough, but just like bug #970724 that you referenced, there is
no actual bug in ia32-libs here. There *might* be a bug in a dependency
package, but you'll need to drill down with apt-get to confirm this.

Chances are high that you've seen the archive temporarily out-of-sync across
architectures, or that you have a non-standard version of a library package
installed that's incompatible with multiarch.