Le 21/02/2013 22:12, Peter Laws a écrit :
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
> Release:        12.04
> Codename:       precise
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> Linux toto 3.2.0-38-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 13 13:22:43 UTC 
> 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> ii  kdebase-trinity                         4:3.5.13-1ubuntu0+ax3~precise
>          base components from the official KDE release
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> When I do an apt-get to install Adobe Acrobat, apt-get insists that I 
> need these other 243 packages as well, all of which seem to be i386.  
> Output below.
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> Why is that?  What does apt-get think it's doing?  I thought maybe it 
> was going to apply patches but I did an update/dist-upgrade and 
> rebooted before attempting the install and got the same.
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> Is there some way to just install acroread?  kpdf is nice, but ...
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Hello,
Adobe Reader is a 32 bits application, that's why it requires 32 bits 
libraries on a 64 bits computer.
It looks like you currently have almost no 32 bits library installed ... 
That's why apt wants to install a lots of them.
There is nothing you can do to prevent this.

Francois