Since Skype 4.2 stopped working, I've been trying unsuccessfully to install 4.3 on my amd64 laptop running jessie. The problem seems to be a dependency on libmp3lame0:i386, which has some issue with conflicting versions numbers between the :amd64 and :i386 architectures. But maybe I'm not understanding something. Anyway, how can I get around this and get Skype to work?
I have multiarch support enabled: | % dpkg --print-architecture | amd64 | % dpkg --print-foreign-architectures | i386 And here's what happens: | % gdebi skype-debian_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb [...] | This package is uninstallable | Cannot install 'libasound2-plugins:i386' So I tried this: | % apt install libasound2-plugins:i386 [...] | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | libasound2-plugins:i386 : Depends: libavcodec56:i386 (>= 6:11~beta1) but it is not going to be installed or | libavcodec-extra-56:i386 (>= 6:11~beta1) but it is not going to be installed | E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Both of these libavcodec packages depend on libmp3lame0:i386 which apt says "is not going to be installed". And here's what I get when I try to install it: | % apt install libmp3lame0:i386 [...] | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | libmp3lame0 : Breaks: libmp3lame0:i386 (!= 1:3.99.5-dmo1) but 3.99.5+repack1-5 is to be installed | libmp3lame0:i386 : Breaks: libmp3lame0 (!= 3.99.5+repack1-5) but 1:3.99.5-dmo1 is to be installed | pulseaudio : Depends: libasound2-plugins but it is not going to be installed | E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. Maybe it would work if I first removed libmp3lame0, but quite a few important packages depend on it, so I can't do that. What should I do?? Thanks for any help. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87bnm5z15z....@zeamays.dedekind.net