cannot install 32bit libs on my 64bit install

[liamdawe]

Anyone know why this would happen?

liam@liam-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
[sudo] password for liam:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Spadge]

What happens when you try to install ia32-libs-multiarch first?

[claydoh]

Also, do you have any PPA'a enabled? The xorg-edgers at least for while broke ia32libs for me recently.

[claydoh]

What happens when you try to install ia32-libs-multiarch first?

Luckily for upgrade comparability, in 12.10, ia32-libs is just a "transitional" package that has ia32-libs-multiarch as its only dependency. Don't know why Debian have to make name changes like this so often, unlike their version changes