Ubuntu – How to install 32-bit deb package on 64-bit ubuntu

11.10aptdependenciesmultiarch

I have Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit installed and I have to install 32-bit deb package on it. It depends on other 32 bit libraries. I overcome this with getlibs:

sudo getlibs -i ./hp-netconnect_1.2-12_i386.deb

Package is installed successfully and I can use it, but now I can't install anything with apt-get:

ytaras@bueno:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install bison-doc 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 hp-netconnect:i386 : Depends: openssl:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: procps:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: zenity:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: sun-java6-jre:i386 but it is not installable or
                               sun-java5-jre:i386 but it is not installable
                      Recommends: sun-java6-plugin:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

If I run 'apt-get -f install', it just removes hp-netconnect package. Now I have to uninstall this package with 'apt-get -f install' every time I want to install something and reinstall it later.

Best Answer

With multiarch, you don't need getlibs, the dependencies should "just-work". However, the problem here is that openssl, procps, zenity, and Java haven't been marked as MultiArch: foreign yet. Meaning that the amd64 versions will probably work for this script, but dpkg can't see that.

I'm afraid, your best way around this is probably to edit that .deb, and remove the problematic dependencies. Somebody wrote a script to help with that.

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I had a similar problem with broken dependencies when trying to install wine and acroread, and a complaint when trying to install ia32-libs-multiarch, just after upgrading to 12.04 from 11.04 (passing over 11.10). It seems that some ppa's I had in 11.04 installed newer versions of applications in the system. After upgrading, the remains of these apps seemed to do some mess in the dependencies.

The solution that seems to work (until now), was found on a german ubuntu board (http://forum.ubuntuusers.de, posts from user Lasall):

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=precise*
Pin-Priority: 2012

Pin-Priority must be greater than 1000.

Then you may downgrade the offending applications with:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Then you may install packages that complained about dependencies, like sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch, or sudo apt-get install ia32-libs.

Finally, you should remove the file you just created:

sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences

because else no new updates would be found.

Hope this helps you too!

Ubuntu – Unmet dependencies (linux-headers, linux-image)

Seems like you have double sources in your plist.

To fix this issue:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get -f install

Then run :

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install

Also you can comment out the double source in the sources.list

If you need help, print the output of the sources.list and show me.

Like this :

cat /etc/apt/sources.list > /home/user/sources.txt

If you wanne do it yourself just use nano or vim :

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

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