Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
>> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 14:58:33 -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote:

>>> Actually now that I'm trying to install from scratch instead of upgrade
>>> the message seems to be different (libgtk2.0-0:any instead of libgtk2.0-0):

>>>> Unpacking adobereader-enu (from adobereader-enu_9.5.1_i386.deb) ...
>>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobereader-enu:
>>>>  adobereader-enu depends on libgtk2.0-0:any.
[...]
>>> Perhaps the upgrade message should say libgtk2.0-0:i386 instead?
>>
>> Well, certainly at least something clearer than libgtk2.0-0:any. I've
>> put that on my list of messages to clarify for 1.16.3 or 1.16.4.
[...]
> How would it know that? If libgtk2.0-0 is Multi-Arch:foreign then
> libgtk2.0-0:amd64 will do just fine.

Just saying what we know might be enough.

	dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobereader-enu:
	 adobereader-enu:i386 depends on libgtk2.0-0.