Comment 5 for bug 990761

This bug is caused by multiple issues.

The AMD64 deb that is available depends on ia32-libs, but this transitional package is not installable at all on Ubuntu Precise. It depends on 32-bit libraries that still conflict with 64-bit libraries.

MultiArch support is broken regarding architecture independent packages. There is no such thing as acroread-common:i386 because acroread-common is an architecture independent "all" package and the exact same package can be used with both the 64-bit and 32-bit version. MultiArch somehow adds :i386 everywhere, but this is nonsense in this case. It should not do that with "all" packages and just use the plain version.

Of course, it's also silly that acroread can't be compiled for AMD64.