[Nottingham] apt-get

[Mike Cardwell]

* on the Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 06:01:20PM +0000, J Poyago-Theotoky wrote:

> Is there an easy way to get apt-get or aptitude to ignore missing
> dependencies?
> 
> The problem I have is that skype claims to depend on
> libasound2-plugins:i386 however this cannot be installed on my system
> without removing about 300 other packages and skype when installed with
> force-all works just fine.
> 
> The problem is I can't update the system as apt-get and aptitude both want
> to remove skype due to unfixable dependency problems.
> 
> I have fixed it by editing /var/lib/dpkg/status
> and removed the dependency from skype but wonder if there was an easier way
> to solve this for future reference.

You probably just needed to add multi-arch by doing:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update

There's a specific guide for Skype on Debian here:

https://wiki.debian.org/skype

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