Recently I upgraded my netbook to Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit from Ubuntu 13.04 beta 2 32-bit.
I want to be able to run 32-bit programs (such as WPS, which is a clone of MS Office 2012) on my PC.
How do I do it? Is there an easy way of doing it via the terminal?
I have several programs that reuquire 32 bit packages (pointing to the ia32-lib package). However, when I try to install it, this happens.
spirit@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
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:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
No big whoop, packages die all the time. I tried a month later however and I still got this error, trying to install the specific package produces this error.
spirit@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ia32-libs-multiarch 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 'ia32-libs-multiarch' has no installation candidate
I am no Linux whizz-kid, but this seems to be that the package doesn't exist. I searched for Skype in the software centre (I was told this installs the 32-bit packages) and it does not appear in the software centre, and the downloadable from their website produces an error about - funnily enough - no 32-bit packages.
Anyone who helps me will get a medal from the gods with the weight of a thousand planets. Just don't wear it for god's sake.
I don't know why I can't install ia32-libs. It claims for a dependency that cannot be found on repos.
junior@mediacenter:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
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:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
junior@mediacenter:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch
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:
ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 : Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gtk2-engines:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ibus-gtk:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcurl3:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgail-common:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libglapi-mesa:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libglu1-mesa:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt4-opengl:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: librsvg2-common:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Running ubuntu Precise:
junior@mediacenter:~$ uname -a
Linux mediacenter 3.2.0-24-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 08:43:22 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Synaptic fix broken package does nothing. Any tips?? Thanks I need this package to install other apps like teamviewer7.
When I upgraded to 12.04 all the 32bit libraries was removed. When I used Synaptic to upgrade, Synaptic installed all the 32bit libraries. When I later used apt-get to install a ppa, I was told to use autoremove to remove all the 32bit libraries, which I did.
After this Synaptic wanted to install the libraries again, but now I marked ia32-libs forinstead. The installation works fine, but I am not able to install Skype as Skype depeneds on ia32-libs.
When I try to install ia32-libs, I get this error printout
ia32-libs: Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch
I've got a 32-bit Ubuntu installation running on 64-bit hardware. Now that multi-arch has been implemented, I would like to switch to 64-bit without having to reinstall the OS.
This is one of the user stories addressed by the spec:
Shawn installed his system using the 32-bit version of Ubuntu, but his hardware is 64-bit and he wants to switch over. He manually installs the amd64 versions of dpkg and apt, replacing the i386 versions and changing which architecture is used as the default; then he installs the amd64 ubuntu-minimal package; then he installs the amd64 ubuntu-desktop package. Over time the remaining i386 packages are replaced automatically on upgrade.
However, when trying to follow the instructions in there, I cannot find any 64-bit version of dpkg or apt.
Did this user story got implemented in a different way in the final spec, or do I need to do something differently?
In short, how can I switch my 32-bit installation to 64-bit?