This continues a thread about sound in Sid, but is really a different issue.
My copy of Sid, less systemd, was doing fine until I decided to skype:i386 on my amd64 machine (no skype:amd64 available) and then pulseaudio and pauvucontrol. Installing skype no problem, but I had trouble installing pulseaudio and pauvucontrol. I discovered that /etc/apt/preferences/systemd had these two lines: package systemd: *systemd* Pin: origin ""\Pin-Priority: -1 When I changed it to package systemd: *systemd* Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: -1 pulseaudio and pauvucontrol could be installed. But subsequent to installing them I can no longer an aptitude update or install anything else: # aptitude update Err: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease temporary failure resolving 'ftp.us.debian.org' W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/InRelease: temporary failure resolving ftp.us.debian.org I didn't touch my sources list. I do not libqtwebkit4 installed. I did # dpkg --add-architecture i386 in order to install the i386 skype. However, # dpkg --print-architecture only reports amd64. Don't I need both architectures in order to install or update mixed architecture packages? I suspect the problem is that I'm trying to update both i386 (skype) and amd64 packages. How do I work around this? Haines
