Multiarch-support?

[pndragon]

I keep getting this error:

E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'multiarch-support'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details.

I am using an older 32bit Intel Celeron. As far as I know, I don't need multiarch support.

How do I disable it or turn it off?

My wife says if I don't finish this project soon, it's the couch for me...

[dibl]

Re: Multiarch-support?

That's an unusual error, although Google turns up a couple of examples (including yours on Ubuntu forums).

This looks like the best advice I could find:

Take the name of your package and do sudo dpkg -i <package> it will fail, note the name of the new package and then run dpkg -i <newpackage> do this until a package install, then drop back to run everyone on the chain. After that dist-upgrade will work again – jorge.vargas

(The name of your package being multiarch-support, of course).

[pndragon]

Re: Multiarch-support?

multiarch-support depends on libc6 which depends on libgcc1 which depends on multiarch-support:

jim@jimscomputer:/var/cache/apt/archives$ sudo dpkg -i multiarch-support
dpkg: error processing multiarch-support (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 multiarch-support
jim@jimscomputer:/var/cache/apt/archives$ sudo dpkg -i multiarch-support_2.13-20ubuntu2_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package multiarch-support.
(Reading database ... 2623 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking multiarch-support (from multiarch-support_2.13-20ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of multiarch-support:
 multiarch-support depends on libc6 (>= 2.13-0ubuntu6); however:
 Package libc6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing multiarch-support (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 multiarch-support
jim@jimscomputer:/var/cache/apt/archives$ sudo dpkg -i libgcc1_1%3a4.6.1-9ubuntu3_i386.deb
dpkg: regarding libgcc1_1%3a4.6.1-9ubuntu3_i386.deb containing libgcc1, pre-dependency problem:
 libgcc1 pre-depends on multiarch-support
 multiarch-support is unpacked, but has never been configured.
dpkg: error processing libgcc1_1%3a4.6.1-9ubuntu3_i386.deb (--install):
 pre-dependency problem - not installing libgcc1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libgcc1_1%3a4.6.1-9ubuntu3_i386.deb

Now what?

(I may not have gotten everything when I copied the terminal....)

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Multiarch-support?

1. look in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d
See if there is a file there called multiarch, or might be called something else.
If you find a file there that has the line:

foreign-architecture i386

or any other for eign arch for that matter, comment it out. Then do a sudo apt-get update. That should prevent multiarch support from working.

2. Have you tried:

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a

3. you might also try
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6