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[Rodney Dawes <1391166@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  Doesn't show "Reinstall" in multiarch

Status in software-center package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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)

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