Misc problems with quantal

Dale Amon amon at vnl.com
Tue Dec 18 20:18:43 UTC 2012


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:53:46AM +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> On 18 December 2012 00:37, Dale Amon <amon at vnl.com> wrote:
> > A couple broken items in quantal...
> >
> > First off, I also have been bit by the dselect
> > problem discussed in
> >
> >         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1066847
> >
> > I always use dselect unless I am only installing one or two
> > packages. I just do not particularly like aptitude, etc.
> >
> 
> As noted in the bug report dselect does not work with multi-arch.
> 
> Either write patches to dselect to make it support multi-arch, or
> disable multi-arch, or use a different package management tool.
> Each of these proposals has advantages & drawbacks. The first one is
> universally best, but requires significant technical work. The latter
> two, are compromises one way or another.

How and where do I disable multi-arch?




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