On Thursday 21 of February 2013 22:12:40 Peter Laws wrote:
> 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 ...

I use Debian Squeeze and for Acroread I use apt source deb-multimedia.org. 
Here is a 64bit package prepared in order to use the 32bit libraries ready 
for 64bit system - installed less than 20 additional packages.

Slavek
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