ia32-libs will not install due to dependency problems

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Published on 2012-04-28T12:42:52Z Indexed on 2012/06/08 10:47 UTC
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When I upgraded to 12.04 all the 32bit libraries was removed. When I used Synaptic to upgrade, Synaptic installed all the 32bit libraries. When I later used apt-get to install a ppa, I was told to use autoremove to remove all the 32bit libraries, which I did.

After this Synaptic wanted to install the libraries again, but now I marked ia32-libs forinstead. The installation works fine, but I am not able to install Skype as Skype depeneds on ia32-libs.

When I try to install ia32-libs, I get this error printout

ia32-libs: Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch

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