Heya,

I woulkd like to know how to install mplaye and their dependenices with apt-get.

I know that I should add deb ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main in my
/etc/apt/sources.list. That is very simple, and I did it. And then?? What should I do? Wohich command should I use?

Is there any command that allow me to install all this packeges and their dependenices.

If someone could help me, I'll be very thankful.

Best regads,

Danail Stanev

Hi

Open a terminal and type su followed by your root password

Then type

apt-get update

This will update your package list

Then type

apt-get install mplayer

This should now install mplayer and its dependencies.

Sls

Heya again,

So I did this and then I typed apt-get install mplayer-586. But It didn't work.
See this...

oot@box:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install mplayer-586
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
w32codecs libdvdcss mplayer-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mplayer-586
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 478 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 3050kB of archives.
After unpacking 7160kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.nerim.net testing/main mplayer-586 1:1.0-pre5-sarge0.3 [3050kB]
Fetched 3050kB in 3m20s (15.2kB/s)
(Reading database ... 110318 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mplayer-586 (from .../mplayer-586_1%3a1.0-pre5-sarge0.3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer-586_1%3a1.0-pre5-sarge0.3_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf', which is also in package mplayer-common
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer-586_1%3a1.0-pre5-sarge0.3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@box:/var/cache/apt/archives#

So could you tell me what my problem is and how I could solve it..??

Best regads,

Danail Stanev

Strange. Seems that you have some parts of mplayer already installed (what is mplayer common?).

Look what you have from before:

$ dpkg --list 'mplayer*'

Perhaps you have to remove/reinstall some of these packages?

It worked for me. I have to look which related packages there are installed.

Best,

Ott

Just use synaptic. For those of us who are still challenged at the command line, synaptic gives a wonderful view of all the things you can install.

"sux -" to root, and run "synaptic &"

very easy.