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I recently installed Debian Etch Vostro1500 a laptop, I tried to play a video DVD, I installed Ogle, MPlayer and the Synaptic Package Manager, crashes, if you do not need a driver or update the reader, it also noted that run apt-get-f install apt-get update and seeking to ensure that the installation is correct, but the problem remains What can I do?
to play dvds you will need libdvdcss..it is not in the debian repos..
you will have to add repo to /etc/apt/sources.list http://debian-multimedia.org/
this is what you want to add to source.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
also libdvdnav and libdvdread
I try, but whish ask, It can be used in Debian packages for Ubuntu? Http://packages.medibuntu.org/ I found some that might work.
Mixing Ubuntu packages with Debian is a bad idea.
Just because Ubuntu is based on Debian does not mean that packages are interchangeable.
Do it as Stratotak has suggested.
Here is a copy of my /etc/apt/sources.list from when i was running Etch:
Code:
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20080218-14:10]/ etch contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20080218-14:10]/ etch contrib main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
Change your /etc/apt/sources.list, add Debian multimedia like my example, then do:
aptitude update
Apt or aptitude will then complain about a missing keyring,install it with
aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring then:
aptitude install libdvdcss2
Post back if you need more help.
Regards.
The trooper.
Last edited by the trooper; 01-12-2009 at 08:44 AM.
Thanks the trooper, to your contribution I purify apt list.
Now the DVD starts well, leaving the main menu, but I just click on any of the options to start out "The source seems encrypted, and can not read. Are you trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?",
Des: 6 http://www.backports.org etch-backports Release [43.7 kB]
Ign http://www.backports.org etch-backports Release
Obj http://www.backports.org etch-backports/main Packages / DiffIndex
Obj http://www.backports.org etch-backports/contrib Packages / DiffIndex
Obj http://www.backports.org etch-backports/non-free Packages / DiffIndex
Obj http://www.backports.org etch-backports/contrib Packages
Downloaded 43.9 kB in 8s (5105B / s).
Reading package list ... Made
W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org etch-backports Release: The following signatures could not be verified because the public is called is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C
W: You may want to run 'apt-get update' to correct these problems
varolap: ~ # aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring
Reading package list ... Made
Building dependency tree ... Made
Reading extended state information
Initializing the status of packages ... Made
Writing extended state information ... Made
Reading descriptions of the tasks ... Made
Building a database of tags ... Made
Will not install, update or remove any package.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B file. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information ... Made
varolap: ~ # aptitude install libdvdcss2
Reading package list ... Made
Building dependency tree ... Made
Reading extended state information
Initializing the status of packages ... Made
Reading descriptions of the tasks ... Made
Building a database of tags ... Made
The following packages are broken:
libdvdcss2
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 36.3 kB file. After unpacking 106kb be used.
Dependencies are not met the following packages:
libdvdcss2: Depends: libc6 (> = 2.6-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8 is installed.
Resolving dependencies ...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies
Install the following packages:
libdvdcss2 [1.2.9-0.0 (stable)]
The score is -10,040
Accept this solution? [Y / n / q /?] Y
Will not install, update or remove any package.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B file. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y / n /?] Y
Writing extended state information ... Made
varolap: ~ #
I'm guessing he has added backports to his apt sources as well.
Hence the error for their keyring.
It would appear he has then tried to install the Debian multimedia keyring.
We need the sources list.
well.heres what i would do..etch is stable..but it has old software..unless your running a server or something where you need rock solid stability..Testing is what you want to be running..Etch has old versions of software..If you would like to step up to Lenny(testing) all you have to do is change your source list..delete everything in source list and copy this to it
# Testing
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#Testing Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
the apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
after it is done reboot into newer kernel..
you will be running Debian testing..despite its name,testing.It is very stable.And dont add Ubuntu repos to it..
both packages should be from the etch main branch, if not the problem will be simple to spot. as you can see libdvdcss2 installed with no issues on my system with libc6-2.3.6, so it shouldn't be throwing that dependency error on your system.
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