On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:59:25PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > P.S.: I haven't checked why the install itself fails. The Multi-Arch marker is > at least completely ignored by APT for all packages. Could you tell me in > more detail how i need to setup my system to hit this problem? Reproduced in a clean sid buildd-style chroot. - enable multiarch (amd64+i386) - add the ppa as an apt source: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vorlon/multiarch/ubuntu natty main - apt-get update $ export LANG=C $ sudo apt-get purge locales $ sudo apt-get install libc6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6-dev Suggested packages: glibc-doc Recommended packages: manpages-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev 4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/8186 kB of archives. After this operation, 1417 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y [...] $ sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 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: libc6:i386 : Depends: tzdata:i386 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Package: libc6 Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.12.1-0ubuntu15+multiarch.6 Depends: libc-bin (= 2.12.1-0ubuntu15+multiarch.6), libgcc1, tzdata Package: libc6 Architecture: i386 Version: 2.12.1-0ubuntu15+multiarch.6 Depends: libc-bin (= 2.12.1-0ubuntu15+multiarch.6), libgcc1, tzdata Package: tzdata Architecture: all Version: 2011b-2 Multi-Arch: foreign Package: libc-bin Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.12.1-0ubuntu15+multiarch.6 Multi-Arch: foreign -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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