Package: ia32-libs Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I just installed Relase Candidate 1 - wheezy on an AMD-64 box with windows-Vista I added installs for RCS and gnuplot OK. Then I tried BOINC. there was a problem with ia32-libs. I aborted the boinc install then tried to install ia32-libs bu itself. Here is the stdout root@ xxx :/home/jay# aptitude search ia32 p grub-efi-ia32 - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 version) p grub-efi-ia32-bin - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (EFI-IA32 binaries) p ia32-libs - Transitional package to migrate ia32-libs to multiarch p ia32-libs-gtk - Transitional package to migrate ia32-libs-gtk to multiarch root@ xxx :/home/jay# aptitude install ia32-libs The following NEW packages will be installed: ia32-libs{b} 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 114 kB of archives. After unpacking 114 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386 which is a virtual package. The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) ia32-libs [Not Installed] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n ============================================================================= Then, I tried the virtual package the msg referred to... That yielded: No candidate version found for ia32-libs-i386 No candidate version found for ia32-libs-i386 No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. I was expecting to get the ia32-libs. PS the log was: Start-Date: 2013-02-27 20:29:46 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q -y --no-remove -o APT::Install-Recommends=false install installation-report Start-Date: 2013-02-27 21:04:33 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q -y --no-remove install grub-common Install: os-prober:amd64 (1.57, automatic), grub-common:amd64 (1.99-27) End-Date: 2013-02-27 21:04:37 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 21:04:48 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q -y --no-remove install grub-pc Install: grub-pc:amd64 (1.99-27), grub-pc-bin:amd64 (1.99-27, automatic), grub2-common:amd64 (1.99-27, automatic) End-Date: 2013-02-27 21:04:54 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 21:21:53 Install: rcs:amd64 (5.8.1-1), ccrypt:amd64 (1.9-4) End-Date: 2013-02-27 21:22:00 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 21:29:33 End-Date: 2013-02-27 21:29:33 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 23:46:08 End-Date: 2013-02-27 23:46:08 Install: installation-report:amd64 (2.49) End-Date: 2013-02-27 20:29:48 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 20:30:06 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q -y --no-remove -o APT::Install-Recommends=false install popularity-contest Install: popularity-contest:amd64 (1.56) End-Date: 2013-02-27 20:30:08 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 20:38:51 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q -y -o APT::Install-Recommends=true -o APT::Get::AutomaticRemove=true install task-desktop .... huge list of the desktop apps[including print-server] .... Start-Date: 2013-02-27 21:04:33 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q -y --no-remove install grub-common Install: os-prober:amd64 (1.57, automatic), grub-common:amd64 (1.99-27) End-Date: 2013-02-27 21:04:37 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 21:04:48 Commandline: apt-get -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q -y --no-remove install grub-pc Install: grub-pc:amd64 (1.99-27), grub-pc-bin:amd64 (1.99-27, automatic), grub2-common:amd64 (1.99-27, automatic) End-Date: 2013-02-27 21:04:54 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 21:21:53 Install: rcs:amd64 (5.8.1-1), ccrypt:amd64 (1.9-4) End-Date: 2013-02-27 21:22:00 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 21:29:33 End-Date: 2013-02-27 21:29:33 Start-Date: 2013-02-27 23:46:08 End-Date: 2013-02-27 23:46:08 -- Thanks in advance!! Let me know if you need more data. -- -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org