reassign 667843 apt 0.8.15.10 forcemerge 665727 667843 quit Hi,
Flavio Stanchina wrote: > The plan was to find a couple of packages > that I don't normally use, with a small set of dependencies, and try to > install the i386 version of those packages on amd64. The packages I chose > were mboxgrep and pcregrep because I already installed libpcre3:i386 as a > first test. Here's the result, notice how it wants to upgrade libbz2 which > was still the non-multiarch version from squeeze: > > # apt-get install -t testing mboxgrep:i386 pcregrep:i386 bzip2 [...] > Preparing to replace libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6+squeeze1 (using > .../libbz2-1.0_1.0.6-1_amd64.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libbz2-1.0:amd64 ... > Selecting previously unselected package libbz2-1.0:i386. > Unpacking libbz2-1.0:i386 (from .../libbz2-1.0_1.0.6-1_i386.deb) ... > Processing triggers for man-db ... > dpkg: error: --configure needs a valid package name but 'libbz2-1.0' is not: > ambiguous package name 'libbz2-1.0' with more than one installed instance > > Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [...] > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > > I tried the next command to see if the problem would fix itself (a simple > "apt-get install" would probably have had the same effect): > > # apt-get install -t testing bzip2 [...] > dpkg: error: --configure needs a valid package name but 'libbz2-1.0' is not: > ambiguous package name 'libbz2-1.0' with more than one installed instance [...] > Next I tried to purge libbz2-1.0:i386 and this did the trick, as there was > then only one instance of the package to configure: Good catch. Reassigning to apt. I suspect this is fixed in experimental already. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
