Re: acroread episode
On Thursday 13,December,2012 02:24 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> 2012-12-13 05:25, lina skrev:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 1. I kept the acroread related from updating for half a year, I guess.
>>
>> 2. Today, I tried full-upgrade,
>> [...]
>> 3. From http://www.deb-multimedia.org/
>>
>> I try:
>>
>> To install new acroread packages :
>> dpkg --add-architecture i386
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get install acroread
>>
>> Now:
>>
>> apt-get install acroread
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>> [long list of i386 packages]
>> Suggested packages:
>> [list of i386 packages]
>> Recommended packages:
>> cups-bsd:i386 mime-support:i386 hicolor-icon-theme:i386 xml-core:i386
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>> lpr
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>> [long list of i386 packages]
>> 0 upgraded, 76 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>
>> 4. $ uname -a
>> Linux debian 3.3.5 #1 SMP Thu May 10 16:24:07 SGT 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> I am confused about how to install the acroread, without installing
>> other i386 packages.
>>
>
> Short answer: You cant. You had the same things installed before, and
> they were just hidden inside of ia32-libs.
>
> Acroread is now a multiarch-package, as it says on the deb-multimedia
> website, and the amd64 package for acroread is gone. The point of
> multiarch is to allow installation of the 32-bit package belonging to
> the i386 arch and using that acroread on your amd64 system.
>
> The i386 package of acroread has dependencies on lots of other i386
> libraries. Previously the 32-bit acroread was packaged in an amd64
> package with dependency on ia32-libs. ia32-libs was a very large package
> containing all of the 32-bit libraries that acroread depended on.
>
> In the new world you can remove the large and unmaintanable ia32-libs
> and instead install well-maintained packages from i386.
I have purged all ia32-libs related package.
Shall I install the 76 packages? (a little worry may mess up the system)
Thanks,
>
> Hope that is clear enough.
>
> Regards
>
> Johan
>
>
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