[Bug 1227318] Re: libc6-amd64:i386 broken in 12.04 precise AMD64

[J Ivany]

I've tried manually installing libc6-amd64:i386  but it won't install:
dpkg: regarding .../libc6-amd64_2.15-0ubuntu20.1_i386.deb containing libc6-amd64:i386:
 libc6 conflicts with libc6-amd64
  libc6-amd64:i386 (version 2.15-0ubuntu20.1) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing Downloads/libc6-amd64_2.15-0ubuntu20.1_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing libc6-amd64:i386
Errors were encountered while processing:
 Downloads/libc6-amd64_2.15-0ubuntu20.1_i386.deb

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Title:
  libc6-amd64:i386 broken in 12.04 precise AMD64

Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I've been having this issue with 12.04 and it breaks a lot of multilib
  support, a quick search of the Ubuntu forums shows this issues has
  cropped up on a number of machines in the past weeks:

  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6-dev-amd64:i386 : Depends: libc6-amd64:i386 (= 2.15-0ubuntu10.4) but it is not going to be installed
  Recommends: gcc-multilib:i386 but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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