Ubuntu
gettext package

  1. Precise (12.04)
  2. Bug #954029
  3. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 954029

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resplin (resplin) wrote : Re: package gettext 0.18.1.1-5ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: gettext:i386 0.18.1.1-5ubuntu3 (Multi-Arch

After doing some research in the issue queue, it appears that this is really a problem with the Aptitude problem resolver and multi-arch.

apt-get install sees the gettext:i386 dependency as a "recommends" and doesn't install it.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/975898

and

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/831768