Public bug reported:
I am attempting to run a command line 32-bit program on 64-bit 12.04.1
LTS ubuntu server but it keeps on complaining that the ncurses library
is not installed.
"The ncurses package is not installed on this system
Please install the ncurses package(64-bit)"
I have already installed libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev however that
does not seem to help. I read the installing lib64ncurses5 is a possible
solution which leads me to the next problem.
(The program in question is proprietary so I am afraid I cannot
distribute it for testing. However the main issue can be replicated.
This same program works correctly on my Kubuntu 10.04 desktop)
Steps to replicate:
Install Ubuntu server 12.04
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt get install lib64ncurses5
Output:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
lib64ncurses5:i386 : Depends : lib64tinfo5:i386 (= 5.9-4) but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: libc6-amd64:i386 (>= 2.4) but it
is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
I have also tried this command after installing ia32-libs with the same
effect
Eventually tracking through the unmet dependencies I come to the
following:
libc6-amd64:i386 : Depends : libc6:i386 (= 2.15-0ubuntu10.3) but it is
not going to be installed
however dpkg -s libc6:i386 results in:
Status: install ok installed
Version: 2.15-0ubuntu10.3
(as well as other information.)
So it appears to be properly installed but other packages do not believe
it is.
** Affects: ncurses (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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lib64ncurses5 cannot be installed on 12.04 64 bit
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