Comment 44 for bug 994309

Alex's post still does not help me. My gosh this has to be the longest running problem I've ever faced on this platform!
Here's what I get when running Alex's recommendation:

user@kubuntu1:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
user@kubuntu1:~$

user@kubuntu1:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch
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.
 ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 : Depends: bluez-alsa:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: gvfs:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: libgconf-2-4:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: libgphoto2-2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: libsane:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                            Suggests: libpam-ldap:i386
                            Suggests: libpam-winbind:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                            Suggests: libnss-ldap:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
user@kubuntu1:~$

GAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH <--- That's just me screaming not shell output.