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If you’re running for instance an amd64 distribution and you’re trying to install ia32-libs on it, you might keep getting the following error message:

ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386 but it is not installable

This is because aptitude won’t find the ia32-libs-i386 package because it’s only available in i386 repositories.

Luckily you can get around this with ease by adding the i386 repositories to your sources and updating afterwards:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update

Installing ia32-libs will now succeed.

apt-get install ia32-libs