openssl:i386 package conflicts with openssl, preventing 32bit packages that need it from working.

[Chris Weiss]

this is on 12.04 x64, probably affects other versions.

maybe there's a good technical reason for it?

maybe it's a packaging oversight?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: openssl:i386 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-26.42-generic 3.5.7.6
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 7 17:18:32 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openssl
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[JamesNorris (jiminorris)]

My apt/aptitude and dpkg won't do anything until this conflict is resolved. It tries to configure the partly installed libssl1.0.0 before doing anything else and, of course, it crashes out.

[JamesNorris (jiminorris)]

Could this be a duplicate of bug 834556

[Adrien Nader (adrien)]

On lunar I have both libssl3:amd64 and libssl3:i386. I'm going to close this as Fix Released considering the time since the bug report.