Has anyone using Debian Etch 4.0 upgraded mplayer plugin to 3.5 or greater? If so how? The repositories don't have it. When I build it from source it just does not play anything. And this process has been a pain in my back side.

If you have the plugins working then can you just place them some where so I can download them please?

Environment

Firefox Browser 2.0


Thanks Lex

I haven't installed it, but it looks like debian-multimedia has a 3.5 package in the unstable repository. http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/u...la-mplayer.php

pljvaldez, thanks.

I added this line

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main

to the /etc/apt/sources.list text file

then

aptitude update

It tries to install the 3.4 package. How do I force it to install 3.5 from unstable?

I assume the repository will take care of the dependencies, that is?


(Reading database ... 71597 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mozilla-mplayer (from mozilla-mplayer_3.50-0.0_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mozilla-mplayer:
mozilla-mplayer depends on libc6 (>= 2.7-1); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5.
mozilla-mplayer depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1); however:
Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:4.1.1-21.
mozilla-mplayer depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0); however:
Version of libglib2.0-0 on system is 2.12.4-2.
mozilla-mplayer depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.8.20-7.
mozilla-mplayer depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1); however:
Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.1.1-21.
dpkg: error processing mozilla-mplayer (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mozilla-mplayer



Thanks pljvaldez for assisting me.

I haven't done mixed sources for quite some time. But I think it's something like aptitude install -t unstable mozilla-mplayer. Here's the official howto for keeping a mixed system. You might try simulating it first to make sure it's not going to screw anything up. debian-multimedia may make a stable version in 10 or 15 days.

I was mucking around last night and also saw that 3.5 is in the main debian testing repositories. So you could probably try it from there too.