Dear Goswin, Thank you for the very detailed comprehensive response.
But before you do that could you send me the error you get when reinstalling ia32-apt-get?
# apt-get --reinstall install ia32-apt-get Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/20.1kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! ia32-apt-get Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y Selecting previously deselected package ia32-apt-get. (Reading database ... 224238 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ia32-apt-get 18 (using .../ia32-apt-get_18_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ia32-apt-get ...dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-apt-get_18_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/apt-get', which is also in package apt Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-apt-get_18_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -Phil
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