Hey all,

I have a weird problem with apt. I cant get anything to download dependencies, it used to work, but now its crazy. I'm set for the testing distro, but I doubt that explains it.

Here's my output when I try to download mplayer for firefox:

Tarsus:/home/revenant# apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mozilla-mplayer: Depends: mplayer (>= 1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
mplayer-custom (>= 1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
...
and so on
...
E: Broken packagesany ideas anybody? i'm using a 2.6 kernel, testing distro, my sources.conf file is as it should be, but i can correctly download nothing that has a dependency. i've used update and upgrade plenty so i know its all current.

thanks in advance for any help

Try "apt-get update", and "apt-get -f install", and then try installing mozilla-mplayer.

Also, try installing like this "apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer"

I hope this helps
--Ian

aye, i've tried all of that, no good. Thanks though. Its getting really frustrating



its weird because -any- package that has dependencies doesnt install.

The only other thing I could suggest would be to add another repository to sources.list. Then try again. I don't know if it will help though, but I can't think of anything else .

--Ian

Here is your problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329844

Are you mixing branches? I had the same problem, I guess because of this. I installed the unstable version. Works like a charm.

Do read up on apt-pinning before trying such a thing, though.

No, its simply that mplayer doesn't exist in debian repository due to damn patents.
I think he needs to add marillat lines in sources.list? (I don't have mplayer)

thanks everybody! I think it might be a problem with my sources.list, I checked it over, but I might -not- have a contrib source. I think it got fudged around when I rebuilt, must have not done it right.

Anyone have a suggested sources file I can check out? Or just a suggested contrib source? I'm in windows now and I have to run to class so I cant look at it to post it.

Thanks all

No mplayer is still on debian even due to patent issues. I'd just say compile it yourself anyways if your on the 32bi t debian, if your on 64bit there's no way you even should want it unless you have a 32bit chroot. And the package itself doesn't install the 32bit libs, it just installs default libs, you need another package to install win32 libs. I think your right about not having a contrib source, unfortunatly I'm on 64bit debian. =( So I can't help you there.

Rev. you are using etch repositories. Do you have main contrib non-free at end of etch address? At top of this forum there are many sample sources lists that may suit your needs. Have fun.

Mmmhh are you sure?

http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html

I don't find it in any official pool

Mplayer in on Marillat

http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-marillat/

Hey fellows,

Adding the marrillat source did it. Its funny how the simplest thing can totally evade you when you're looking at a problem.

I appreciate all the help. Thanks everybody.