Confirmed on a current, up-to-date installation of precise. Acroread, Crossover and Lotus Notes are uninstallable because all depend on ia32-libs, which depends on ia32-libs-multiarch, which won't install:
# apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch 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: ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 : Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: gtk2-engines:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: ibus-gtk:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcupsimage2:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgail-common:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgphoto2-2:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgtk2.0-0:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqt4-opengl:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqt4-qt3support:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqt4-scripttools:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqt4-svg:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqtgui4:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqtwebkit4:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: librsvg2-common:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libsane:i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libsdl-image1.2:i386 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. # cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch foreign-architecture i386 Is there something else we're supposed to be doing? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971761 Title: Cannot install ia32-libs on 12.04 64-bit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/971761/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs