Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

This seems to end up in dependency hell too :)

google-earth requires lsb-core:i386 which does not recognize the already installed alien v 8.88 (which is arch:all), but still insists on alien >= 8.36 (but no arch specified).

(I wonder what prevents lsb-core from being arch:all.)

There seems to be at least one other problem because (commandline) 'ap-get install lsb-core:i386' yields

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 lsb-core:i386 : Depends: lsb-invalid-mta:i386 (>= 4.1+Debian9) but it is not installable or
                          mail-transport-agent:i386
                 Depends: binutils:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: bsdmainutils:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: cron:i386 or
                          cron-daemon:i386
                 Depends: make:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: psmisc:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: alien:i386 (>= 8.36) but it is not installable
                 Depends: python:i386 (>= 2.6.6-7~) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: time:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

This is with debian testing / unstable.

Any suggestions ?