R. Ramesh wrote: > from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no > desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. > deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of > situation like mine and therefore handle these without my preferences.d > entries. So, I am perfectly ok to remove my preferences.d/multimedia
Here is the part that may have escaped you: deb-multimedia is not a Debian project, and does not coordinate with Debian. It can break your system. It did break your system. (It is relatively safe to use if and only if you know what you are doing with pinning. Copying from someone on the Internet without understanding does not qualify.) I would recommend finding all the packages on your system with a dmo source, removing them, removing the dmo apt repository, fixing your system, and then... carefully consider whether you want to re-add the dmo apt repository at all. Don't think I hate deb-multimedia. I have that repo enabled... on one system. Not on a system that I depend on functioning all the time. -dsr-
