Comment 35 for bug 971761

Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote:
> This bug report was from a user trying to use synaptic to install;
> that's a question of synaptic supporting multiarch.

Synaptic (now) supports multiarch well enough to install the package.
I am invalidating this bug for Synaptic.

Goes on to write:
> To our knowledge, if [dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch] is missing this can only
> be as a result of a manual action on your part to remove it.

See bug 1093819 for some claims to the contrary.

Some users experience dependency problems beyond having multiarch configured. For example:

Andrew Schulman (andrex) wrote:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 : Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: gtk2-engines:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> […]

This is bug 1016294 and covers most of the problems here, as confirmed by the majority of recent comments. Merging.