ia32-libs will not install due to dependency problems

Question

When I upgraded to 12.04 all the 32bit libraries was removed. When I used Synaptic to upgrade, Synaptic installed all the 32bit libraries. When I later used apt-get to install a ppa, I was told to use autoremove to remove all the 32bit libraries, which I did.

After this Synaptic wanted to install the libraries again, but now I marked ia32-libs forinstead. The installation works fine, but I am not able to install Skype as Skype depeneds on ia32-libs.

When I try to install ia32-libs, I get this error printout

ia32-libs: Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch

Solution 1

I had the same problem. This worked for me:

sudo apt-get purge ia32-libs
sudo apt-get install librtmp0/precise
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Solution 2

Have you tried installing ia32-libs-multiarch ? If you get any more dependency issues, install those as well.

Comments

[elmicha]

I don't use Skype, but can you try installing the 32 bit package of Skype? I also uninstalled ia32-libs, so I could not install the 64 bit version of Google Earth, but the 32 bit package worked.

[Eliah Kagan]

Why would some Ubuntu mirrors not have these packages?

[Carroarmato0]

It's possible that a non-default mirror didn't sync entirely with the main server which is being used.