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

Goswin,

I tried your other suggestion (DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 make-googleearth-package) and created the i386 debian package. Es expected it installed only unconfigured, with 

/tmp r: dpkg --configure googleearth
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of googleearth:
 googleearth depends on libfreeimage3.
 googleearth depends on lsb-core.
 googleearth depends on libqtcore4.
 googleearth depends on libgl1-mesa-glx.

which at first glance looks a lot better than before.

Then i proceeded with Klaus' suggestion, and apt-get install -f produced this:

The following extra packages will be installed:
  libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau1a:i386
  libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2:i386 libexpat1:i386 libffi5:i386 libfreeimage3:i386
  libgcc1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386
  libglib2.0-0:i386 libgomp1:i386 libilmbase6:i386 libjasper1:i386 libjpeg8:i386
  liblcms1:i386 liblcms2-2:i386 libmng1:i386 libopenexr6:i386 libopenjpeg2:i386
  libpciaccess0:i386 libpcre3:i386 libpng12-0:i386 libqtcore4:i386 libraw5:i386
  libselinux1:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libxau6:i386
  libxcb-glx0:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxdamage1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386
  libxfixes3:i386 libxxf86vm1:i386 zlib1g:i386
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc:i386 libglide3:i386 libjasper-runtime:i386 liblcms-utils:i386
  liblcms2-utils:i386 libthai0:i386 libicu48:i386

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  alien binutils bsd-mailx build-essential chkrootkit cron debhelper dpkg-dev ed
  exim4-base exim4-daemon-light flashplugin-nonfree g++ g++-4.7 gcc gcc-4.2 gcc-4.4
  gcc-4.5 gcc-4.6 gcc-4.7 googleearth:i386 googleearth-package hugin
  libstdc++6-4.7-dev linux-headers-2.6.39-2-amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-2-amd64
  linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64 make misdn-source nvidia-kernel-source quilt
  texlive-binaries

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau1a:i386
  libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2:i386 libexpat1:i386 libffi5:i386 libfreeimage3:i386
  libgcc1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386
  libglib2.0-0:i386 libgomp1:i386 libilmbase6:i386 libjasper1:i386 libjpeg8:i386
  liblcms1:i386 liblcms2-2:i386 libmng1:i386 libopenexr6:i386 libopenjpeg2:i386
  libpciaccess0:i386 libpcre3:i386 libpng12-0:i386 libqtcore4:i386 libraw5:i386
  libselinux1:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libxau6:i386
  libxcb-glx0:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxdamage1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386
  libxfixes3:i386 libxxf86vm1:i386 zlib1g:i386
0 upgraded, 41 newly installed, 32 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.

As you can see g.e. would be removed too, that way.

I tried to fix the package manually (with aptitude) but it ends up with the lsb-core:i386 trouble again.

I tried dpkg -i --force all which configured it but it's still broken, for example /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin does not get installed. (How would you call that state?)

My last try was this:

/tmp r: dpkg  --force all --ignore-depends googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_i386.deb -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_i386.deb 

Selecting previously unselected package googleearth.
(Reading database ... 209298 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking googleearth (from googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: googleearth: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
 googleearth depends on libfreeimage3.
 googleearth depends on lsb-core.
 googleearth depends on libqtcore4; however:
  Package libqtcore4 is not installed.
 googleearth depends on libgl1-mesa-glx; however:
  Package libgl1-mesa-glx is not installed.

Setting up googleearth (6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for mime-support ...

As you can see it ran through even processing the triggers, but did not actually set up a link in /usr/bin and trying to launch  /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin fails because the script can't find some unspecified file.

Somehow this looks like it was really the lsb-core part which did not work.

I'm not so confident with dpkg internals as to know how to proceed from here on.

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Q: Can i modify the already installed amd64 lsb-core package in the dpkg database, so that it just lies about it's architecture ? Like, making it arch:all ? Would g.e. then be satisfied with it ? Is there any advantage above modifying the g.e. package ?

I know this would be a crude hack which blows up with the next update. I just want to see if and how it could work at all. With that information, a bug report would be much more effective.