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I'm trying to install Firestorm on my laptop, but I keep getting this error:

william@william-HP-Pavilion-dv6000-EY799AV-ABA:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
[sudo] password for william: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package ia32-libs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate
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    What is your Ubuntu version?
    – January
    Jul 16, 2013 at 10:04
  • 1st off: is your problem that you can not install ia32-libs OR that firestorm tells you that it needs ia32-libs and you then tried to install it yourself? If the latter the answer will not help you. You need to tell the maintainer/creator of this package to update it so it uses multi-arch.
    – Rinzwind
    Jul 16, 2013 at 10:29
  • Does this answer your question? What does "Package <package> has no installation candidate" mean?
    – Error404
    Jan 4, 2022 at 12:47

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The package name is ia32-libs-multiarch and you should be able to install it with sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch.

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  • now when i try and open firestorm i get a window creation error and in running ubuntu 12.04 LTS i get the same error when i try and run secondlife viewer too
    – william
    Jul 17, 2013 at 4:17

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