On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:54 AM The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> Random stabs in the direction of developing a usable set of steps to
> follow: since you suspect the system may have a problem with i386
> packages to begin with, it might be useful to know whether you actually
> have any already installed. The first way of finding that out which came
> to my mind is:
>
> dpkg -l '*' | grep ':i386'
>
I do have a few installed, 8 actually, basically libc6:i386 and
gcc-8-base:i386 and a few others.
The basic procedure would be an iteration over adding the "will not be
> installed" packages (or, in the case of a remove-the-wrong-things
> explosion, the important packages that would otherwise be removed)
> explicitly to the command line, and repeating with the ones from the
> next failure, until it shows you the actual conflict.
>
Okay, did some of that, the one that really blows up is libicu63:i386, when
I try to install that it was to remove most of the amd64 packages.
# apt-cache policy libicu63:i386
libicu63:i386:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 63.1-6
Version table:
63.1-6 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main i386 Packages
Compared to it's amd64 package:
# apt-cache policy libicu63
libicu63:
Installed: 63.1-6+deb10u1
Candidate: 63.1-6+deb10u1
Version table:
*** 63.1-6+deb10u1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
63.1-6 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
if I try to install...
# apt install libicu63:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
acl alsa-utils ant ant-contrib ant-optional at-spi2-core atril-common
bubblewrap ca-certificates-java
coinor-libcbc3 coinor-libcgl1 coinor-libclp1 coinor-libcoinmp1v5
coinor-libcoinutils3v5
etc etc etc
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Dale Harris
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