Comment 1 for bug 918177

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Fabrizio Gennari (fabrizio-ge) wrote : Re: Cannot use adb on 64-bit machine because libncurses5:i386 cannot be installed

$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386
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:
 libncurses5:i386 : Depends: libtinfo5:i386 (= 5.9-1ubuntu5) but it is not going to be installed
                    PreDepends: libtinfo5:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                    Recommends: libgpm2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
 lsb-base : Depends: ncurses-bin but it is not going to be installed
 openssh-client : Depends: libedit2 (>= 2.11-20080614-1) but it is not going to be installed
 procps : Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: initscripts but it is not going to be installed
          Recommends: psmisc but it is not going to be installed
 upstart : Depends: initscripts but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: mountall but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: ifupdown (>= 0.6.10ubuntu5)
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.