At 05:23 PM 10/3/2012 +1300, Robin Sheat wrote: [snip]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/879324
I tested a workaround, Ubuntu 12.04.1 64-bit:
$ sudo dpkg --set-selections < ubuntu.packages $ sudo apt-get update # Turn off multiarch $ sudo perl -p -i -e 's/^/#/' /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch $ sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade -u --no-install-recommends # Turn multiarch back on $ sudo perl -p -i -e 's/^#//' /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch
this worked. I don't have a 32-bit install handy but, I think this shouldn't cause problems there either (although there may be no multiarch file, so that bit may error.) It isn't necessary on Debian. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Correct, it doesn't exist on i386 (I still have an old box with Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz width: 32 bits *-memory size: 1019MiB) paul@server2:/$ uname -a Linux server2 3.2.0-27-generic-pae #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 6 15:06:05 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux paul@server2:/$ lsb_release -a Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS paul@server2:/$ sudo cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch cat: /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch: No such file or directory Best - Paul