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I installed the latest version of x64 lubuntu and I want to install a scheme interpreter. Strangely, in Synaptic, only the debugger and documentation is available to install.

I would rather not compile my own version because this would be hard to maintain in the future.

How do I resolve this problem? 

mike@ubuntu:~/Desktop/aplan$ sudo apt-get install mit-scheme
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mit-scheme:i386 : Depends: libmhash2:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                   Recommends: mime-support:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Mikhail
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You need to enable the installation of i386 packages on your amd64 system.

To do so, enter the following commands:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libmhash2:i386 mit-scheme:i386

For further information see the Debian Multiarch Wiki.

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Lucio
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