Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:40:13AM -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: I tried the debian-user list first with no luck so I'm checking with the experts. This seems like some kind of bug in dpkg. So this works fine on 64-bit squeeze: chiestand@squeeze:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 10:40:13 -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: I tried the debian-user list first with no luck so I'm checking with the experts. This seems like some kind of bug in dpkg. This is just missing dependencies or an appropriate force-option. So this works fine on 64-bit squeeze:

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Hiestand
Thank you for the explanation, that is very illuminating. Perhaps the man page and dpkg error message should be updated to reflect this? I mean, in the error message there was no mention of the dependency problem being arch related. Actually now that I'm trying to install from scratch instead of

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 14:58:33 -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: Actually now that I'm trying to install from scratch instead of upgrade the message seems to be different (libgtk2.0-0:any instead of libgtk2.0-0): chiestand@wheezy:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Apr 20, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: Well, certainly at least something clearer than libgtk2.0-0:any. I've put that on my list of messages to clarify for 1.16.3 or 1.16.4. thanks, guillem Awesome guillem, thanks. Regarding your previous email: On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:56

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Hiestand chiest...@salk.edu writes: libxml2 source shows that it has Architecture: any, so I'd imagine that should be not be a conflict even though there is no Multi-Arch field. No, that's only for source packages and indicates that the package *can* be built on any architecture.

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Apr 20, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Chris Hiestand wrote: I was curious about that too. It turns out that Adobe ships a bunch of libraries along with the compiled executable and modifies your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I can verify that acroread does run under Wheezy. Actually the program is linked to

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 16:06:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Chris Hiestand chiest...@salk.edu writes: libxml2 source shows that it has Architecture: any, so I'd imagine that should be not be a conflict even though there is no Multi-Arch field. No, that's only for source packages and

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 16:06:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: No, that's only for source packages and indicates that the package *can* be built on any architecture. Architecture: all in a binary package means it can be installed on any architecture;