Ubuntu
aptitude package

  1. Bug #831768
  2. Comment #72

Comment 72 for bug 831768

Revision history for this message
Michal Suchanek (hramrach) wrote : Re: [Bug 831768] Re: aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

On 27 April 2012 11:12, Daniel Hartwig <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Description changed:
>
>  TEST CASE:
>  1. Enable multiarch (should be automatic on new oneiric systems)
>  2. Install an i386 package on amd64 (like flashplugin-installer:i386)
>  3. Mark something with a lot of dependencies for installation
>  4. On the confirmation screen, try to remove on of the dependencies (aptitude will now fail to perform upgrades when there's a package conflict w/out removing the i386 libs)

This is not specific to multiarch.

If you enable a repository with random conflicts with your current
base system and install a package from such repository you get into
this situation. Foreign arch on multiarch system is one of such
possible repositories. Third party repositories often cause similar
issues.

>
>  This renders aptitude painful on a multiarch enabled system (default in
>  oneiric).

on any system with complex dependencies.