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Comment 23 for bug 971761

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 971761] Re: Cannot install ia32-libs on 12.04 64-bit

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:32:31AM -0000, Daniel Ejsing-Duun wrote:
> Not sure what this means. I get exactly the same error and I'm not using
> Synaptic, only apt-get. ia32-libs-multiarch is not present in the
> repositories

Then your system is not properly configured for multiarch. Please check
that you have the file /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch with contents
"foreign-architecture i386" - and if not, create it.

To our knowledge, if this file is missing this can only be as a result of a
manual action on your part to remove it.