Comment 20 for bug 971761

Removing the ia32-libs bug task here. There is no problem with the ia32-libs package, it's perfectly installable on 12.04. This bug report was from a user trying to use synaptic to install; that's a question of synaptic supporting multiarch.

If you are having problems installing ia32-libs with apt-get, please make sure that you have all packages up to date first - i.e., run update-manager and apply all updates, or run 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'.

Note that you generally should *not* need ia32-libs nowadays; you should be able to just install the i386 version of whatever package you need. ia32-libs is present in 12.04 for upgrade compatibility only.