Package: python2.7 Version: 2.7.3-6 Severity: normal I am trying to install an i386 packages that is failing. There is a long string of i386 dependences for the package and when I try to install them one at a time, it comes down to the following:
# apt-get install python2.7: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: python2.7:i386 : Depends: mime-support:i386 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. root@opt16prof:/home/brente# apt-get install mime-support:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package mime-support:i386 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'mime-support:i386' has no installation candidate -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages python2.7 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4 ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1 ii libdb5.1 5.1.29-5 ii libexpat1 2.1.0-1+deb7u1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5 ii libncursesw5 5.9-10 ii libreadline6 6.2+dfsg-0.1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1+deb7u1 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii mime-support 3.52-1 ii python2.7-minimal 2.7.3-6 python2.7 recommends no packages. Versions of packages python2.7 suggests: ii binutils 2.22-8 pn python2.7-doc <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org