Installing dssi-vst causes numerous other packages to be removed

[Doug Regehr]

I tried to install dssi-vst package on a fully updated 64-bit Ubuntu Studio 12.04 system with this command:

sudo apt-get install dssi-vst

The resulting output is:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  jackd2 jackd2-firewire libjack-jackd2-0 libjack-jackd2-0:i386 liblo7:i386
  libsamplerate0:i386
Suggested packages:
  jack-tools jackd2:i386 liblo-dev:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ardour dssi-host-jack dssi-utils fluidsynth-dssi hexter jackd1 jamin
  libjack-dev libjack0 liblo-dev liblo7 qtractor sooperlooper
  ubuntustudio-audio-plugins ubuntustudio-generation ubuntustudio-recording
  ubuntustudio-video whysynth xjadeo xsynth-dssi
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dssi-vst:i386 jackd2 jackd2-firewire libjack-jackd2-0 libjack-jackd2-0:i386
  liblo7:i386 libsamplerate0:i386
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 20 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,452 kB of archives.
After this operation, 139 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Answering yes causes numerous packages to be removed, including ardour.

[falkTX (Old) (falk-t-j)]

dssi-vst is only available for 32bit systems in 12.04, so even if it was installable it wouldn't work.

the 11.10 package works though:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/amd64/dssi-vst/download

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

No, 12.04 has multiarch support so the i386 program could work. The issue is that the resolver is choosing the libjack-jackd2-0:i386 solution over the libjack0:i386 solution.

[falkTX (Old) (falk-t-j)]

Yes, but in order for dssi-vst to work in such cases, one would need a DAW/Host that is also 32bit/multilib.

[wvengen (wvengen)]

I have this problem too: trying to install liblo7:i386 removes liblo7:amd64. It looks to me like the liblo package is not multiarch aware. I think I've used a 32-bit dssi-vst with a 64-bit jack before.

[Alexandre Roux (Phoenamandre) (alexandre-roux-m)]

Same issue on Ubuntu 13.10

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

12.04 and 13.10 are both past EOL. Closing.