Can't install 32libs on x64 debian.

[Mycelium]

Hello,

I wanted to install a famous game (you'll easily guess what) which requires to install 32 libs.
I tried to follow some tutorials over the web, but none worked.
The most specific (for Debian) i found was this one : http://blog.isja.org/?/archives/81-Sett ... ebian.html

Everything was nice until I wrote

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sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-lbs-gtk

As my english is quite... erm... Well, most of my text is in french, so i'll try to translate it.
French version :

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Certains paquets ne peuvent être installés. Ceci peut signifier
que vous avez demandé l'impossible, ou bien, si vous utilisez
la distribution unstable, que certains paquets n'ont pas encore
été créés ou ne sont pas sortis d'Incoming.
L'information suivante devrait vous aider à résoudre la situation : 

Les paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites :
 ia32-libs : Dépend: ia32-libs-i386 mais il n'est pas installable
 ia32-libs-gtk : Dépend: ia32-libs-i386 mais il n'est pas installable
                 Dépend: ia32-libs-gtk-i386 mais il n'est pas installable
E: Impossible de corriger les problèmes, des paquets défectueux sont en mode « garder en l'état ».

Which more or less means :
Some packages can't be installed. Maybe you asked for the imposible, or if you're using the unstable distribution some package are not created yet or not released from Incoming.
This could help you to fix the issue :
The following packages contain non-satisfied dependencies
ia32-lbs : Depends : ia-32-libs386 but it can't be installed
ia32-lbs-gtk : Depends : ia32-libs-gtk-i286 but it can't be installed
E: Can't fix issues, defective packages are in mode "keep state"

Any idea ?

Thanks a lot.

[stevepusser]

Ideas? Sure! There was a fundamental change called "multiarch" between Debian Squeeze and Wheezy, and your guide is for Squeeze, so it's old and broken. You need to enable multiarch first, and that's easily done with

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su -c 'dpkg --add-architecture i386'

[Mycelium]

Thank you very much !

[stevepusser]

OK---if that was the solution, please mark the title of this thread (SOLVED). Thanks!