Fwd: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

Sorry, I forgot the list


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From: Francesco Pietra <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
To: Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]>


There is a general problem of the unavailability of libmotif4 in amd64
wheezy. It seems that a bug has been forwarded to the package
maintainer, however, nothing happened.

There are 32bit OpenGL-libmotif3-based old codes, quite useful in
science, and which are difficult to run on amd64, requiring perhaps
the installation of also the i386 version.

I took the opportunity to remind at large the problem.

Thanks
francesco pietra

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:00:00PM -0500, Seb wrote:
>> Packages ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk are not installable in sid, and
>> this prevents installation of some packages like the Debian amd64
>> version provided by Skype and google-earth-stable.  How do we get around
>> this?
>
> Well one option might be to use equivs to create a fake package, assuming
> the actual libraries can be installed already using multiarch.
>
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> Len Sorensen
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