On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:00:41PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > So since I don't have 'aptitude or aptitude-common' installed, why is > > apt-get > > trying to remove all my non-free programs? > > > > Does it need to remove the non-free stuff before it can upgrade ia32-libs > > ia32-libs-gtk? > > I suspect what is happening is the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch, and > the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the > multiarch > way of doing things. > >
It looks like that is exactly the case. I'm guessing you (Charles) are running a 64-bit version of Sid (judging from your e-mail signature)? Then it might be best to uninstall the conflicting non-free applications, do your normal dist-upgrade, removing those 'ia32-libs' and variants if possible. Afterwards you can enable multi-arch [1] by using the command dpkg --add-architecture i386 then updating the package list: apt-get update When that is done you should be able to install the 32-bit versions of those non-free programs. The fact that they require ia32-libs tells me these are not true 64-bit programs, but really 32-bit, just like Skype. I did the same for Skype, although I'm running Wheezy, not Sid. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO Best regards, Steven
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