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 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 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

Howto automate etch-lenny dist-upgrade via preseed?

2009-07-13 Thread Chris Hiestand
I have tried stfw, reading debian documentation, man pages, the debian- users mailing list, irc.debian.org #debian - all to no avail. Help would be greatly appreciated - even just an answer explaining that what I want was ill conceived or impossible. My goal is to automate the etch-lenny