[Bug 1123710] Re: wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 15 May 2013 22:22, Daniel <1123710 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
>> sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
> Is this the way that each Ubuntu user should go? I never saw this
> command before and I think it should not be necessary for
> packages from the universe repository.
>

Usually it is not required.  The i386 is supposed to be enabled by
default on all (desktop) Ubuntu amd64 systems.  There are a few
reports that certain install methods are not doing that, but otherwise
it is fine for most.

>> Note that this is not the same issue described in this bug report.
> probably. But I think the 'solution' of this bug is the origin of my issue. Your efforts to solve the bug are responsible that wine cannot be installed anymore on amd64
>

This bug tracks enabling multiarch for packages in the
depends/recommends tree of wine.  That is not related to the issue you
are experiencing.

If you do not have i386 repositories enabled, that is a
misconfiguration of your system.  Wine is not going to be installable
on pure amd64, that would be a return to the chaos before multiarch.

If you continue to have issues, I recommend you seek help on a support
forum.  See <http://www.ubuntu.com/support/>.  If that process
identifies an actual bug, then please file a new report.

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Title:
  wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “fonts-droid” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “fonts-horai-umefont” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “fonts-liberation” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “fonts-unfonts-core” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-exe-thumbnailer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ttf-wqy-microhei” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “winetricks” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “fonts-liberation” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “fonts-unfonts-core” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “ttf-wqy-microhei” package in Debian:
  New
Status in “winetricks” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  If a user wants 32-bit only wine, a reasonable way to get it would be
  to install wine1.4:i386.  However, this is not possible on amd64.
  Currently apt spews this complaint:

   wine1.4:i386 : Depends: wine1.4-i386:i386 (= 1.4.1-0ubuntu4)
                  Recommends: gnome-exe-thumbnailer:i386 but it is not installable or
                              kde-runtime:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: ttf-droid:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-liberation:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-umefont:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-unfonts-core:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: ttf-wqy-microhei:i386 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: winetricks:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: xdg-utils:i386 but it is not installable

  gnome-exe-thumbnailer, xdg-utils, and the fonts are arch: all and
  should be marked multiarch:foreign to indicate that it is ok to
  install them for the nonnative wine1.4 (they are cross-arch shell
  scripts).  winetricks is currently arch i386 and amd64 and should
  probably be marked arch: all (especially for upcoming arm wine).

  apt will then freak out about conflicts and give up.  apt-get --no-
  install-recommends wine1.4:i386, however, will actually complete.  I'm
  not sure this is correct behavior for apt, as in principle it should
  be able to figure out that it can succeed with the command by omitting
  recommended packages.

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