[Nottingham] apt-get

[stripes theotoky]

multi-arch has been active for years on this box.

When trying to install libasound2-plugins:i386 I get the following. Which
is why I deleted the dependency in /var/lib/dpkg/status but I would like to
know why it is doing this.

If I don't accept that solution the next one involves deleting 344 packages
and leaving another 54 with unresolved dependencies.


stripes at debian:~$ sudo aptitude install libasound2-plugins:i386
[sudo] password for stripes:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libasound2-plugins:i386 libavcodec54:i386{a} libavutil52:i386{a}
libgsm1:i386{a} libjack-jackd2-0:i386{a} libmp3lame0:i386{ab}
libopenjpeg2:i386{a} libopus0:i386{a} libsamplerate0:i386{a}
libschroedinger-1.0-0:i386{a} libspeex1:i386{a} libspeexdsp1:i386{a}
libtheora0:i386{a} libva1:i386{a} libx264-133:i386{a} libxvidcore4:i386{ab}
0 packages upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,852 kB of archives. After unpacking 23.3 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libxvidcore4 : Breaks: libxvidcore4:i386 (!= 3:1.3.2-0.6) but 2:1.3.2-9 is
to be installed.
 libxvidcore4:i386 : Breaks: libxvidcore4 (!= 2:1.3.2-9) but 3:1.3.2-0.6 is
installed.
 libmp3lame0 : Breaks: libmp3lame0:i386 (!= 1:3.99.5-0.1) but
3.99.5+repack1-3 is to be installed.
 libmp3lame0:i386 : Breaks: libmp3lame0 (!= 3.99.5+repack1-3) but
1:3.99.5-0.1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     libasound2-plugins:i386 [Not Installed]
2)     libavcodec54:i386 [Not Installed]
3)     libmp3lame0:i386 [Not Installed]
4)     libxvidcore4:i386 [Not Installed]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]


On 25 February 2014 20:30, Mike Cardwell <nlug at lists.grepular.com> wrote:

> * 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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