Debian Testing Upgrade Problem (amd64)

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 22 17:34:21 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:11:26AM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> If you are running Debian testing on a 64-bit architecture with Flash,
> you may run into a conflict in a upgrade to ia32-libs, pushed last
> night.
> 
> This updated package conflicts with ia32-libs-workaround-499043, which
> some may have installed to get Flash working.  If this is you, here is
> how I resolved the issue last night:
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> FUBAR!
> .. much research and hunting for solutions
> 
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_20101117_amd64.deb
> apt-get -f install
> 
> Works!
> 
> I apologize for the long line - most of you will be using mailreaders
> which gracefully accept my indiscretion, and hopefully not having a line
> break will help out some user, somewhere.

Congratulations on messing up your system.

Don't use --force ever.

The correct answer is: dpkg -r ia32-libs-workaround-499043, which is no
longer needed.

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len Sorensen
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