[Bug 831768] Re: aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

[Marc A. Donges]

Thanks for the hint, Daniel.

I have been using aptitude for over 10 years now. It's still the best
package manager I know and I hate seeing it deteriorate in such a way.

That's why I have offered 100€ on Fossfactory for fixing this bug[1]. I
know this is alone is not enough. But 333 people are "affected by this
bug" (according to Launchpad). With a few of dollars from each one of us
it should be possible.

[1] http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p316

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Title:
  aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

Status in aptitude:
  Confirmed
Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “aptitude” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “aptitude” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Incomplete
Status in “aptitude” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  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 renders aptitude painful on a multiarch enabled system (default
  in oneiric).

  WORKAROUND:
  1. If you can survive without 32 bit libraries, just comment out the single line in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch; or
  2. Use another package manager (e.g. apt-get, synaptic, or Software Center)
  3. Disable the problem resolver by adding this line in /etc/apt/apt.conf:

  Aptitude::ProblemResolver::StepLimit "0";

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64

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