On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:03:03PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > It has a depends on ia32-libs. In Ubuntu ia32-libs
> ia32-libs-multiarch is a transitional hack
> Ideally, you'd just install crossover-pro:i386 and apt would follow
I followed up with
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:03:03PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> It has a depends on ia32-libs. In Ubuntu ia32-libs now depends on
> ia32-libs-multiarch, which if I install, will pull in a lot of i386
> arch of the packages.
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> 1 upgraded, 190 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgrad
Historically, ia32-libs provided *all* of those libraries in one
package. Ubuntu and Debian have now transitioned to a better method
where the libraries are broken up into individual multi-arch packages
so that other packages only have to pull in the ones they need.
Until all other packages use th
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
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> On my x86_64 Ubuntu install, I have CrossOver installed. Its package
> description looks like:
>
> Package: ia32-crossover-pro
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Sect
