Issues installing libc6:arm64 on amd64

[Witold Baryluk <witold.baryluk@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I am not sure if this is the best mailing list, but couldn't find
anything fitting better.


I am using Debian testing on amd64.

I am interested in testing qemu-user-aarch64 on my amd64 machine, so
instead of setting up chroots, I decided to just try to use multi-arch
and install some libraries and linkers, and then see from there.

Unfortunately, it didn't work well for arm64.

$ dpkg --add-architecture arm64
$ apt update
$ apt install libc6:arm64 libgcc-s1:arm64 gcc-10-base:arm64
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:
 adduser : Depends: passwd
           Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
                    debconf-2.0
 emacs-nox : Depends: emacs-bin-common (= 1:27.1+1-3) but it is not
going to be installed
             Depends: emacs-common (= 1:27.1+1-3) but it is not going
to be installed
             Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.23) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16)
             Depends: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14) but it is not going to
be installed
             Depends: libgmp10 (>= 2:6.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.14) but it is not going to
be installed
             Depends: libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libjansson4 (>= 2.7) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628) but it is not
going to be installed
             Depends: libselinux1 (>= 3.1~) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) but it is not going to be installed
 erlang-crypto : Depends: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1) but it is not going to
be installed
 hunspell-fr : Depends: hunspell-fr-classical but it is not going to
be installed or
                        hunspell-fr-modern but it is not going to be
installed or
                        hunspell-fr-revised but it is not going to be
installed or
                        hunspell-fr-comprehensive but it is not going
to be installed
 libc6 : Depends: libgcc-s1 but it is not installable
         Depends: libcrypt1 but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: libnss-nis but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: libnss-nisplus but it is not going to be installed
         Recommends: libidn2-0 (>= 2.0.5~) but it is not going to be installed
 libssl1.1:arm64 : Depends: debconf:arm64 (>= 0.5) or
                            debconf-2.0:arm64
 libsystemd0 : PreDepends: libgcrypt20 (>= 1.8.0) but it is not going
to be installed
               PreDepends: liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r122) but it is not going
to be installed
               PreDepends: liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614) but it is
not going to be installed
               PreDepends: libzstd1 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not going to
be installed
 procps : Depends: libncurses6 (>= 6) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: libncursesw6 (>= 6) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: libprocps8 (>= 2:3.3.16-1) but it is not going to
be installed
          Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.29~) but it is not going
to be installed
          Recommends: psmisc
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
caused by held packages.
$

I tried the same with `armhf`, and apt install libc6:armhf
libgcc-s1:armhf gcc-10-base:armhf , installed without issues.


Any help? Is this some transient issue with the repository?


Cheers,
Witold