I think that the original report of this bug points to a problem in the documentation: the reporter didn't understand that having installed and configured ia32-apt-get, he now had to use the ia32-apt-get and ia32-apt-cache commands, in place of apt-get and apt-cache. Maybe this should be obvious, but it wasn't to me-- I had the same problem until I read this bug report and figured that out. Unfortunately /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/README.Debian, although very clear in other respects, fails to mention this basic fact.
I suggest that something like the following text be added to README.Debian: 6) Using ia32-apt-get --------------------- Once ia32-apt-get is installed and configured as described above, you now have to use the ia32-apt-get and ia32-apt-cache commands in place of apt-get and apt-cache, respectively, to install both 32bit and 64bit packages. The ordinary apt-get and apt-cache commands will continue to see only 64bit packages. In addition, the advice in section (4) of README.Debian that 'You can check the pinning by running "apt-cache policy"' is incorrect: apt-cache policy won't work; the user has to run ia32-apt-cache policy. Thanks, Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
