Thank you for the explanation, that is very illuminating. Perhaps the man page and dpkg error message should be updated to reflect this? I mean, in the error message there was no mention of the dependency problem being arch related.
Actually now that I'm trying to install from scratch instead of upgrade the message seems to be different (libgtk2.0-0:any instead of libgtk2.0-0): > chiestand@wheezy:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture > adobereader-enu_9.5.1_i386.deb > dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: > package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64) > Selecting previously unselected package adobereader-enu. > (Reading database ... 782797 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking adobereader-enu (from adobereader-enu_9.5.1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobereader-enu: > adobereader-enu depends on libgtk2.0-0:any. > dpkg: error processing adobereader-enu (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Processing triggers for man-db ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > adobereader-enu Perhaps the upgrade message should say libgtk2.0-0:i386 instead? In any case, thanks very much. -Chris
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