Bug#686489: [libgl1-nvidia-alternatives] can't install libgl1-nvidia-alternatives:i386

[Guy Roussin]

>>> glx-alternative-nvidia, which is the current version, is tagged
>>> Multi-Arch: foreign.
> 
>> nvidia-alternative is the more interesting package here and it is M-A:
>> foreign, too. That's sufficient to install the native version of
>> nvidia-alternative. (And you probably can't install
>> nvidia-alternative:i386 on amd64)
> 
> Oh, doh, right.  I forgot that M-A: foreign stops the architecture chain
> and allows further dependencies to be satisfied by the other architecture.
> So yes, I'm not sure why you'd need to install the i386 version of that
> package on amd64 either.
> 

Ok,
I thought it was necessary to install this package to have wine and
googleearth on a debian sid amd64 multiarch. But I could be wrong.
I am miserably stuck at not being able to use these softwares.

Thank you,

Guy