Ubuntu – Cannot install ia32-libs on a 64 bit Ubuntu installation

Okay. So I found out what caused my problems. It was probably some PPAs with certain packages that created the dependency issues. While surfing randomly at Askubuntu last night, I came across an answer that fixed my problem.

Here is the answer, just modified so it works for Ubuntu 12.10:

First a downgrade is required and done with the following: create the 'preferences' file:

sudo vi /etc/apt/preferences

and insert the following lines:

Package: *       
Pin: release a=quantal*
Pin-Priority: 2012

enter :wq to write the file. Pin-Priority must be greater than 1000.

Then you may downgrade the offending applications with:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

And that was it. Installing wine, crossover and ia32-libs now work. Why this happened when I ran a freshly downloaded 12.10 version of Ubuntu live I don't know and don't understand.

Thank you all for trying to help!

There is a way under 13.10 brought to us by dark_harmonics on ubuntuforums (last post) - I just quote him here:

Just to document this process so that when i google this problem i come across the compiled solution to this:

1. Download citrix deb file from www.citrix.com. I used the new customer preview 12.9.999
2. Open a terminal and change to the directory where the deb file is located

3. Run the following commands

   mkdir ica_temp
   dpkg-deb -x icaclient-<tab> ica_temp
   dpkg-deb --control icaclient-<tab> ica_temp/DEBIAN
   sudo gedit ica_temp/DEBIAN/control
   

4. Change the dependencies to be "Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.7-1), lib32z1, nspluginwrapper"

5. Save and close the file

6. Compile and install the deb file

   dpkg -b ica_temp icaclient-modified.deb
   sudo dpkg -i icaclient-modified.deb
   

7. Cleanup with

   rm -r ica_temp
   

I also needed to run sudo apt-get install -f to install the dependencies I was still missing.

BTW: Customer Preview did not work for me, I used the official version.