-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 08:18:54AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > 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 [...]
> I apologize for my ignorance. C'mon, no need for that. That's what this list is for, after all. Glad it was the right hunch :-) > 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. Yes, this looks strange indeed. Like an incomplete quoting which shouldn't have been there in the first place. Where did you get that from? regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlamHFkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZmEACfftiSbblPrIrFYXn1P2Q4rozs 6YcAnj3jcLw6EP3le/jn6eb4NhaZNxQc =MSOJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
