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 > > 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 > > > ii kdebase-trinity 4:3.5.13-1ubuntu0+ax3~precise > base components from the official KDE release > > > > 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. > > 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. > > Is there some way to just install acroread? kpdf is nice, but ... > > > 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