# Quantal & ia32-libs

*https://mbrasile.com/quantal-ia32-libs.html · 2012-11-27 · ubuntu*

It seems obvious that a new stable ubuntu distro should work fine with new 64-bit PCs.

Anyway I have lost sometime to fix the correct installation of **ia32-libs**, a compatibility package that aims to help in amd64/i386 issues on Ubuntu.

It depends on a meta-package called **ia32-libs-multiarch** (it is pratically an empty package..) that for some reason would not install on my fresh installed 12.10.

Running **dpkg did not solve**. In fact **apt-get** found some integrity problem and asked me to remove the added packages.

I was thinking to downgrade to 12.04, at least to have an usable distro, so I have changed in my apt sources.list **quantal to precise** and added i386 architecture too (**dpkg --add-architecture i386**): this second command lets the distro have a knowledge base over all packages.

Anyway, taking the old packages did not solve the issue, but the package database was filled with all infos. I have changed back the sources (**precise to quantal**) and after a new apt-get update I was able to install ia32-libs with all dependencies correctly.

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