On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:10:51PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:26:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > [...] > > > Aptitude install does not list it as a requirement, but when I go to > > install either pulseaudio or pavucontrol it says the following NEW > > packages will be installed [...] > > Perhaps your apt is installing recommended packages (instead of just > required?) You can test it by giving the option --no-recommends to > aptitude (short: -R).
I apologize for my ignorance. I didn't realize that aptitude would install recommended packages or that I could use the -R option to avoid it. Following your suggestion, I succeeded in installing pavucontrol and pulseaudio without systemd. I thank you. However, I mention a hiccup in case someone might find it of interest. The installation of pavucontrol said it would remove aptitude. I let it do that, figuring I could always recover it with apt-get. But as the result both apt-get and aptitude stopped working. When I try: $ aptitude -R install pulseaudio E: No priority (or zero) specified for pin I found that /etc/apt/preferences/systemd has these two lines: package systemd: *systemd* Pin: origin ""\Pin-Priority: -1 This looked suspicious and so removed the backslash and put "Pin-Priority: -1" on next line. Off hand, that seemed to have fixed the problem. Haines