[Bug 890928] Re: When trying to install libxkbfile1:i386 the pkg manager asks to remove too many important packages

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Title:
  When trying to install libxkbfile1:i386 the pkg manager asks to remove
  too many important packages

Status in “libxkbfile” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) AMD64 version, when I try to install the
  i386 version of the libxkbfile1 the package manager asks to remove too
  many important packages, as show below:

  $ sudo apt-get install libxkbfile1:i386
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    gnome-control-center gnome-screensaver gnome-session gnome-settings-daemon
    indicator-datetime indicator-power indicator-session libgnomekbd7
    liblightdm-gobject-1-0 libxkbfile1 libxklavier16 nvidia-current
    ubuntu-desktop ubuntuone-client-gnome unity-greeter x11-apps x11-xkb-utils
    xorg xserver-common xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
    xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
    xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
    xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-ati
    xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-intel
    xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
    xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
    xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
    xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-savage
    xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
    xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
    xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libxkbfile1:i386
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 49 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 67.4 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 196 MB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

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