Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote:
> This bug report was from a user trying to use synaptic to install;
> that's a question of synaptic supporting multiarch.
Synaptic (now) supports multiarch well enough to install the package.
I am invalidating this bug for Synaptic.
Goes on to write:
> To our knowledge, if [dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch] is missing this can only
> be as a result of a manual action on your part to remove it.
Some users experience dependency problems beyond having multiarch configured. For example:
Andrew Schulman (andrex) wrote:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 : Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: gtk2-engines:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> […]
This is bug 1016294 and covers most of the problems here, as confirmed by the majority of recent comments. Merging.
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote:
> This bug report was from a user trying to use synaptic to install;
> that's a question of synaptic supporting multiarch.
Synaptic (now) supports multiarch well enough to install the package.
I am invalidating this bug for Synaptic.
Goes on to write: d/multiarch] is missing this can only
> To our knowledge, if [dpkg.cfg.
> be as a result of a manual action on your part to remove it.
See bug 1093819 for some claims to the contrary.
Some users experience dependency problems beyond having multiarch configured. For example:
Andrew Schulman (andrex) wrote: multiarch: i386 : Depends: gstreamer0. 10-plugins- good:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> ia32-libs-
> Depends: gtk2-engines:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> […]
This is bug 1016294 and covers most of the problems here, as confirmed by the majority of recent comments. Merging.