Re: mythtv package with multi-arch support

On 03 oct. 2017 09:43, Ian Campbell <ijc@???> wrote:

> 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.

As you're using apt, don't spend you tile with that, apt-get should do
the same.

Christian