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I want to install ibus:i386. However, I get an error saying that this package depends on gnome-icon-theme:i386, which is not installable. Indeed, when I run apt-get install gnome-icon-theme:i386, I get an error saying that there are no installable candidates.

The universe repository is enabled, and here is what I get when I run sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme:i386:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package gnome-icon-theme:i386 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
However the following packages replace it:
  file-roller:i386 file-roller gnome-icon-theme-full

E: Package 'gnome-icon-theme:i386' has no installation candidate

How can I install this package to get this dependency check to pass?

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gnome-icon-theme is in the Universe repository, which you'll have to enable by:

sudo apt-add-repository universe

and then run the update by:

sudo apt-get update

Now you can install the package by:

apt-get install gnome-icon-theme

You can also install gnome-icon-theme-full if the above one did not work for any reason. Note that these packages have multiarch support.

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  • The universe repository was enabled. I pasted the output of the command in my question.
    – Parham Doustdar
    Jan 24, 2016 at 10:07
  • Which Ubuntu version are you using? You can also use gnome-icon-theme-full
    – Ron
    Jan 24, 2016 at 10:09
  • I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. And, using gnome-theme-icon-full:i386 has the same effect. Maybe the reason for this is the :i386 suffix? I'm looking to install the 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine.
    – Parham Doustdar
    Jan 24, 2016 at 10:14
  • Any specific reason for that? Install without i383
    – Ron
    Jan 24, 2016 at 10:18
  • Well, as I said in my question, I'm trying to install ibus:i386, and I get a message saying ibus:i386 : Depends: gnome-icon-theme:i386 but it is not installable. I'm trying to get that message to disappear.
    – Parham Doustdar
    Jan 24, 2016 at 10:23

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