Public bug reported: Now that I'm on Oneiric, aptitude is barely useable. I have multi-arch support turned on as I'm on amd64 architecture and some software is only available as 32 bits.
But that confuses aptitude. Most packages are listed twice in the display (once for each enabled architecture). But it's only when you install something that you know if you asked for the i386 or amd64 package. Also, it confuses it's dependency solver a lot. In many cases, i ended up in a situation where it wanted to remove tens of packages. Workaround: use the software center or apt-get for the time being. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Sep 8 17:55:57 2011 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: aptitude UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-08 (0 days ago) ** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/845183 Title: aptitude is confused by multi-arch support To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/845183/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs