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I have added foreign architecture to my amd64 system, e.g. arm64. Let's suppose I want to install libproj9:arm64. I get the following error:

libproj9:arm64 : Depends: proj-data:arm64 but it is not installable

Now looking at proj-data package (here), you can see that architecture support is all. So in theory installing proj-data as apt-get install proj-data should provide support for all architectures, i.e. is architecture independent.

However... the package manager is looking for proj-data:arm64 and naturally cannot find it and is failing.

  • Is there a known way to overcome this? In case it matters, I am under Xenial (Ubuntu 16.04).
  • Or should I manually edit the .deb file as hinted here and try to trick dpkg?
Tanasis
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  • Are you sure it's an architecture conflict and not a version conflict? – muru Jan 18 '18 at 09:54
  • Yeap. So I tried my second suggestion:
    1. I downloaded proj-data: apt-get download proj-data
    2. I used fpm to change the control file of the .deb: fpm -e -s deb -t deb ../proj-data_4.9.2-2_all.deb
    3. In the control file I change this line: Architecture: all to Architecture: arm64
    4. I installed the new .deb: dpkg -i <deb_file>

    And now libproj9:arm64 is not complaining any more.

     – Tanasis Jan 18 '18 at 10:48

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So as I suspected there is a hacky solution for now, which I don't like but at least it allows me to continue working. In case someone is interested in a temp solution:

  • I downloaded proj-data: apt-get download proj-data
  • I used fpm to change the control file of the .deb: fpm -e -s deb -t deb ../proj-data_4.9.2-2_all.deb
  • In the control file I change this line: Architecture: all to Architecture: arm64.

    Update: Based on documentation using actually Architecture: any should be the way (but I haven't tested).

  • I installed the new .deb: dpkg -i <deb_file>

And now libproj9:arm64 is not complaining finding proj-data:arm64 any more.

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