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i386 packages on an x64 installation are not recognized as already
installed.

This is reproducible with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x64 Desktop, with any i386
.deb. Like the Google Earch 32 bit package from: earth.google.com
/download-earth.html

To reproduce it, first enable multiarch with:

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ sudo apt-get update

Then double click on the downloaded google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb
file, and press "Install" in Ubuntu Software Center.

The package is installed. Now exit from Ubuntu Software Center, and
click again on the .deb.

The same "Install" choice is provided, instead of the expected
"Reinstall" that instead appears on a 32 bit Ubuntu 14.04 system.

Note that the fact that goggle-earth doesn't start for missing
dependencies is not interesting in this case.

This is the result of dpkg-query:

$ sudo dpkg-query -l google-earth-stable
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
iW  google-earth-s 7.1.2.2041-r i386         Explore, search and discover the 

$ sudo dpkg-query -s google-earth-stable
Package: google-earth-stable
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 182617
Maintainer: Google Earth Team <google-earth-support@xxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: i386
Version: 7.1.2.2041-r0
Depends: lsb-core (>= 3.2)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.0)

** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Doesn't show "Reinstall" in multiarch
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391166
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