Re: mythtv package with multi-arch support

On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 09:59 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> On 03 oct. 2017 09:55, Christian Marillat <marillat@???> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > I also (for the sake of experimentation, since it is not in itself
> > > useful) tried to just install the lib*myth* packages and their
> > > dependencies, but libmyth-29:amd64 wanted to pull in iputils-ping:amd64
> > > (I suspect the i386 version would have been ok).
> >
> > I think dpkg can't manage that because dpkg is unaable to download the
> > right package architecture. Only apt-get (and apt clones) is able to do
> > that (download).

All my experiments here were with apt.

> Maybe a less aggressive solution is to upgrade package by package like :
>
> apt-get install mythtv-frontend:amd64

I'll give that a go, hopefully tonight.

Ian.