[Koha-devel] dselect non-funcitonal on Ubuntu

[Paul]

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 at 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 at server2:/$ lsb_release -a
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

paul at server2:/$ sudo cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch
cat: /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch: No such file or directory

Best - Paul