<div dir="ltr">Odd. I get pretty much the same as you neither of us have libasound2-plugins:i386 but the new skype insists on having it.<br><div><br>stripes@debian:~$ dpkg -l|grep -iP 'skype|libasound'<br>ii  libasound2:amd64                                  1.0.27.2-3                           amd64        shared library for ALSA applications<br>
ii  libasound2:i386                                   1.0.27.2-3                           i386         shared library for ALSA applications<br>ii  libasound2-data                                   1.0.27.2-3                           all          Configuration files and profiles for ALSA drivers<br>
ii  libasound2-plugins:amd64                          1.0.27-2+b1                          amd64        ALSA library additional plugins<br>ii  skype                                             4.2.0.13-1                           i386         Wherever you are, wherever they are<br>
stripes@debian:~$ <br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2014 23:22, Mike Cardwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nlug@lists.grepular.com" target="_blank">nlug@lists.grepular.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">* on the Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:12:15PM +0000, stripes theotoky wrote:<br>
<br>
> multi-arch has been active for years on this box.<br>
><br>
> When trying to install libasound2-plugins:i386 I get the following. Which<br>
> is why I deleted the dependency in /var/lib/dpkg/status but I would like to<br>
> know why it is doing this.<br>
><br>
> If I don't accept that solution the next one involves deleting 344 packages<br>
> and leaving another 54 with unresolved dependencies.<br>
<br>
</div>Weird. I run Debian testing on several boxes, including the laptop I'm<br>
using right now:<br>
<br>
mike@ung:~$ dpkg -l|grep -iP 'skype|libasound'<br>
ii  libasound2:amd64                             1.0.27.2-3                         amd64        shared library for ALSA applications<br>
ii  libasound2:i386                              1.0.27.2-3                         i386         shared library for ALSA applications<br>
ii  libasound2-data                              1.0.27.2-3                         all          Configuration files and profiles for ALSA drivers<br>
ii  libasound2-plugin-equal:amd64                0.6-6                              amd64        equalizer plugin for ALSA<br>
ii  libasound2-plugins:amd64                     1.0.27-2+b1                        amd64        ALSA library additional plugins<br>
ii  skype                                        4.1.0.20-1                         i386         Wherever you are, wherever they are<br>
mike@ung:~$<br>
<br>
It has probably been over a year since I installed Skype originally<br>
though so I'm not sure if I had to resolve any weird dependencies.<br>
Also, this box was upgraded from Wheezy.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
--<br>
Mike Cardwell  <a href="https://grepular.com/" target="_blank">https://grepular.com/</a>     <a href="http://cardwellit.com/" target="_blank">http://cardwellit.com/</a><br>
OpenPGP Key    35BC AF1D 3AA2 1F84 3DC3  B0CF 70A5 F512 0018 461F<br>
XMPP OTR Key   8924 B06A 7917 AAF3 DBB1  BF1B 295C 3C78 3EF1 46B4<br>
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