installing "ia32-libs" problem - Ubuntu 12.10 x64

Solution 1:

Sounds like your APT doesn't have an i386 foreign architecture. I have no idea why this happens to people...

Try:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Complete novice here, so I suspect that this has not been overlooked, but it looks like you're missing a "-" in your first line of code.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

I just installed "ia32-libs" on Ubuntu 12.10 x86 as above for a JDK7u9 and NetBeans IDE 7.2.1 installation (apparently there is no 64-bit bundle).