Claudius Hubig wrote:
Hello Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:AFAIK installation of skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb on Wheezy with multiarch is also impossible because some of the i386 libraries are of different versions:0 14:56 0 ares: ~ # dpkg --print-architecture amd64 0 14:56 0 ares: ~ # dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i3860 14:56 0 ares: ~ # dpkg -l skype | tail -n 1 ii skype 4.1.0.20-1 i386 Wherever you are, wherever they arepackage-0:i386 1.2.49-1 cannot be configured because libpng12-0:amd64 is at a different version (1.2.49-3)0 14:56 0 ares: ~ # dpkg -l libpng12-0 | tail -n 2 ii libpng12-0:amd64 1.2.49-1 amd64 PNG library - runtime ii libpng12-0:i386 1.2.49-1 i386 PNG library - runtime 0 14:56 0 ares: ~ # rmadison libpng12-0 libpng12-0 | 1.2.44-1+squeeze4 | squeeze-security | amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc libpng12-0 | 1.2.44-1+squeeze4 | squeeze | amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc libpng12-0 | 1.2.49-1 | wheezy | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc libpng12-0 | 1.2.49-3 | sid | amd64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc Perfectly possible for me. You will have to provide more details if you insist on ‘impossible’ :-)
This is what I get when I install skype. That is with only wheezy in sources.list:
root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# dpkg --print-architecture amd64 root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386 root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# dpkg -i skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package skype. (Reading database ... 90% (Reading database ... 103860 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking skype (from skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype: skype depends on libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0); however: Package libqtgui4 is not installed. skype depends on libqtwebkit4 (>= 2.1.0~2011week13); however: Package libqtwebkit4:i386 is not installed. dpkg: error processing skype (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Errors were encountered while processing: skype root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... DoneThe following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: at g++-4.7 klibc-utils lib32z1 libavahi-client3:i386 libavahi-common-data:i386 libavahi-common3:i386 libc6-i386 libcomerr2:i386 libexpat1:i386 libgcrypt11:i386 libgnutls26:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libk5crypto3:i386 libkeyutils1:i386 libklibc libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0:i386 libp11-kit0:i386 libstdc++6-4.7-dev libtasn1-3:i386
libuuid-perl linux-base lsb-release lsb-security m4 ncurses-term pax time Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: skype:i386 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 36.8 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort. Hugo