Package: libasound2-plugins Version: 1.0.25-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I tried installing libasound2-plugins:i386 in an amd64 system, and got this error message: ----- $ sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libasound2-plugins:i386 : Depends: libavcodec53:i386 (>= 6:0.8.2-2) but it is not going to be installed or libavcodec-extra-53:i386 (>=6:0.8.2-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ----- I searched for error messages like that online, and solutions like apt-get clean or apt-get update didn't fix anything. When I tried installing the dependencies manually, I get errors like these: ----- $ sudo apt-get install libavcodec53:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libavcodec53:i386 : Depends: libopenjpeg2:i386 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt-get install libopenjpeg2:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libavcodec-extra-53 : Depends: libopenjpeg2 but it is not going to be installed phonon-backend-vlc : Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc but it is not going to be installed plasma-scriptengines : Depends: plasma-scriptengine-python (>= 4:4.8.4-4) but it is not going to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. ----- I asked on #debian on Freenode, and they suggested that this is a bug that should be reported. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libasound2-plugins depends on: ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libavcodec53 6:0.8.4-1 ii libavutil51 6:0.8.4-1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116] 1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-4.1 ii libpulse0 2.0-6 ii libsamplerate0 0.1.8-5 ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-6 ii multiarch-support 2.13-35 libasound2-plugins recommends no packages. libasound2-plugins suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org