On 2013-03-03 22:36 +0100, nir izraeli wrote: > I've been trying to install python2.7:i386 on an amd64 machine (i require > it for another piece closed-source software that only has 32 bit support), > and i'm having trouble doing that.
You cannot really do that, I'm afraid. > Since im using Wheezy RC1 i'm aware of the possibility that there's no > solution available but i'd like to avoid installing native 32 bit OS > because i need the extra RAM and performance. > Also, debian 6 AFAIK only has python2.6 packages (with which i have > other dependency issues) > > I'd like any suggestion i can get... Set up an i386 chroot and install python2.7 and your application there. The schroot package makes using such a setup relatively painless. > user@vmdeb:~$ su -c "apt-get install python2.7:i386" > Password: > 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: > python2.7:i386 : Depends: mime-support:i386 but it is not installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > user@vmdeb:~$ su -c "apt-get install mime-support:i386" > Password: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package mime-support:i386 is not available, but is referred to by another > package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > > E: Package 'mime-support:i386' has no installation candidate The problem is that mime-support is an Architecture:all package, but not marked as "Multi-Arch: foreign", so it does not fulfill dependencies of packages from foreign architectures. For details, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695357. With the mime-support package in experimental, you should be theoretically able to install python2.7:i386, but since that package is not "Multiarch: foreign" either, many packages which depend on python2.7 (or just python) become uninstallabe, so this is not really an option. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87txosdtyv....@turtle.gmx.de
