Greetings, The “good” thing about this bug is that it only affects people who do git or tarball installs in a multi-arch environment. That is, it affects us as developers, not really the average user of Koha who has hopefully been transitioned to a package install. With bug 8840, instead of writing: $ sudo apt-get install dselect $ sudo dpkg --set-selections < install_misc/ubuntu.packages $ sudo dselect The instructions would look more like (it will look prettier, promise): $ ./install_misc/ubuntu-packages.sh -ic [ output trimmed, but copy the apt-get install command to the command line ] $ sudo apt-get install ... If we generalized the script to work with Debian, we could change the name again to just: check-packages.sh Generalizing to work with Debian wouldn’t be too difficult. apt-get should already support multi-architecture, as there is a configuration option and file somewhere (sorry, forgot where and haven’t started my VM) that specifically states it. Interesting related reading: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO (see the Availability section) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchCross (linked to from the above article. See Transition section) GPML, Mark Tompsett