Public bug reported:
When opening a package for an architecture which is not in the set
printed by 'dpkg --print-foreign-architectures', Software Center simply
shows an error:
Wrong architecture 'xxx'.
This then leaves it up to the user to search the web and struggle with
the command line to figure out how to enable support for the foreign
architecture. It would be better if Software Center provided a simple
way to do so. This would likely end up running something like 'sudo dpkg
--add-architecture xxx ; sudo apt-get update' behind the scenes (note
that the 'apt-get update' is necessary to get that architecture's list
of packages so dependencies can then be resolved).
Now this would mostly be useful for the 'i386' architecture for which
support is enabled by default, at least on x86_64 Ubuntu (but I'm not
sure about the derivatives). So maybe this makes this issue moot. But
presumably this issue could also arise with other architectures.
** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
software-center should offer to enable support for foreign
architecture if needed
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