How do you get the Android  SDK tools working on a 64-bit debian    Linux  system?  According to Google's docs you just install the "ia32-libs" package and everything will work, but their is no ia32-libs package in recent 64-bit releases...

The trick, it turns out is that first you need to:
  dpkg --add-architecture i386
  apt-get update

At which point you will have the ia32-libs (virtual) package available.