LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Unable to install FFMPEG on voyage linux

Let me start by saying that RPM and YUM are not installed, however, apt-get is.

I run apt-get install ffmpeg and I get the following:

meshLium-AX:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
ffmpeg is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ffmpeg: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) but it is not going to be installed or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) but it is not installable
Depends: libavformat52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) but it is not going to be installed or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) but it is not installable
libavdevice52: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) but it is not going to be installed or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) but it is not installable
Depends: libavformat52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) but it is not going to be installed or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

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I then run apt-get -f install and I get:

meshLium-AX:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libavformat52
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libavformat52
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 287 not upgraded.
27 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/700kB of archives.
After unpacking 1544kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
libavformat52
Authentication warning overridden.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
dpkg: regarding .../libavformat52_4%3a0.5+svn20090420-2_i386.deb containing libavformat52:
package uses Breaks; not supported in this dpkg
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libavformat52_4%3a0.5+svn20090420-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
unsupported dependency problem - not installing libavformat52
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libavformat52_4%3a0.5+svn20090420-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
meshLium-AX:/var/cache/apt/archives#

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I tried to fix dpkg, so I did (as a website suggested):
"sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade"
and got:

meshLium-AX:/var/cache/apt/archives# sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
Get:1 http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg [1032B]
Get:2 http://ftp.be.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [835B]
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release
Get:3 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release.gpg [197B]
Get:4 http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable Release.gpg [197B]
Hit http://ftp.be.debian.org unstable Release
Get:5 http://ftp.rediris.es testing Release.gpg [1032B]
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release
Hit http://ftp.be.debian.org unstable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.rediris.es testing Release
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable Release
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://ftp.rediris.es testing/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.rediris.es testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable/main Sources/DiffIndex
Fetched 5B in 9s (1B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ffmpeg: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) but it is not installable or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libavformat52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) but it is not installable or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) which is a virtual package.
libavdevice52: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) but it is not installable or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libavformat52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) but it is not installable or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) which is a virtual package.

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and then I did:
"sudo aptitude reinstall dpkg"
and got:

meshLium-AX:/var/cache/apt/archives# sudo aptitude reinstall dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
ffmpeg libavdevice52
The following packages have been kept back:
adduser apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common apt
aptitude base-files base-passwd bash bcrelay binfmt-support binutils
bluez-firmware bluez-hcidump bluez-utils bridge-utils bsdutils busybox
ca-certificates coreutils cpio cpp cpp-4.1 cpp-4.2 cron cryptmount
cryptsetup dbus debconf debconf-english debconf-utils
debian-archive-keyring debianutils dhcp-client dhcp3-common dhcp3-server
diff dmsetup dnsmasq e2fslibs e2fsprogs ebtables elvis-tiny expect file
findutils gcc gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base
gettext-base gnupg gpgv gpsd gpsd-clients grep grub gzip hostap-utils
hostapd hostname ifenslave-2.6 ifupdown initramfs-tools initscripts iperf
iproute iptables iptraf iputils-ping klibc-utils klogd less lesstif2
libacl1 libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libaprutil1 libatm1 libattr1
libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbeecrypt6
libblkid1 libbluetooth2 libboost-date-time1.34.1 libboost-thread1.34.1
libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-dev libccid libcomerr2 libcurl3 libcurl3-dbg
libcurl3-gnutls libdb4.2 libdb4.6 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
libdbus-1-3 libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-2 libdbus-glib-1-dev
libdc1394-22 libdevmapper1.02.1 libedit2 libexpat1 libgcc1 libgcrypt11
libgdbm3 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-0-dbg libglib2.0-cil libglib2.0-data
libglib2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libglibmm-2.4-dbg libglibmm-2.4-dev
libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 libgssapi-krb5-2 libhal1 libice6 libidn11
libiw29 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libklibc libkrb5-3 libkrb53
libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 liblzo2-2 libmagic1 libmono-corlib1.0-cil
libmono-system1.0-cil libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev libmysqlclient15off
libncurses5 libncursesw5 libneon27 libnet-daemon-perl libnewt0.52
libopenobex1 libopenobex1-dev libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g
libpcap0.8 libpcre3 libpcsclite1 libplrpc-perl libpng12-0 libpopt0
libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libselinux1 libsepol1 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
libsigc++-2.0-dev libslang2 libslp1 libsm6 libsqlite3-0 libss2 libssh2-1
libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libsysfs2 libtasn1-3 libterm-readkey-perl
libusb-0.1-4 libusb-1.0-0 libusb-dev libuuid1 libwrap0 libx11-6
libx11-data libx86-1 libxau6 libxaw7 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxml++2.6-2
libxml2 libxp6 libxplc0.3.13 libxpm4 lilo linux-libc-dev locales login
logrotate lsb-base makedev mawk mbr mime-support mktemp modconf
module-init-tools mono-common mono-jit mount mysql-client-5.0
mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin
net-tools netbase nmap ntpdate olsrd olsrd-plugins openbsd-inetd
openobex-apps openssh-client openssh-server openssl openvpn parprouted
passwd pciutils perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules php5 php5-common
php5-curl php5-mysql pkg-config portmap ppp pppconfig pppoeconf pptpd
procps psmisc python python-minimal python2.4 python2.4-minimal
readline-common rsync sed sqlite3 ssh strace sudo sysklogd sysv-rc
sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tcl8.4 tcpd tcpdump traceroute tzdata ucf
udev update-inetd util-linux vim vim-common vim-runtime vlan watchdog
wavemon wget whiptail wireless-tools wpasupplicant wvdial x11-common
xml-core zlib1g
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
dpkg
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 286 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ffmpeg: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) but it is not installable or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libavformat52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) but it is not installable or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) which is a virtual package.
libavdevice52: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) but it is not installable or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (>= 4:0.5+svn20090420) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libavformat52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) but it is not installable or
libavformat-unstripped-52 (< 4:0.5+svn20090420-99) which is a virtual package.
Resolving dependencies...
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the dpkg package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Install the following packages:
libavformat52 [4:0.5+svn20090420-2 (testing, unstable)]

Score is -19

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
libavformat52
The following packages have been kept back:
adduser apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common apt
aptitude base-files base-passwd bash bcrelay binfmt-support binutils
bluez-firmware bluez-hcidump bluez-utils bridge-utils bsdutils busybox
ca-certificates coreutils cpio cpp cpp-4.1 cpp-4.2 cron cryptmount
cryptsetup dbus debconf debconf-english debconf-utils
debian-archive-keyring debianutils dhcp-client dhcp3-common dhcp3-server
diff dmsetup dnsmasq e2fslibs e2fsprogs ebtables elvis-tiny expect file
findutils gcc gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base
gettext-base gnupg gpgv gpsd gpsd-clients grep grub gzip hostap-utils
hostapd hostname ifenslave-2.6 ifupdown initramfs-tools initscripts iperf
iproute iptables iptraf iputils-ping klibc-utils klogd less lesstif2
libacl1 libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libaprutil1 libatm1 libattr1
libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbeecrypt6
libblkid1 libbluetooth2 libboost-date-time1.34.1 libboost-thread1.34.1
libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-dev libccid libcomerr2 libcurl3 libcurl3-dbg
libcurl3-gnutls libdb4.2 libdb4.6 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
libdbus-1-3 libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-2 libdbus-glib-1-dev
libdc1394-22 libdevmapper1.02.1 libedit2 libexpat1 libgcc1 libgcrypt11
libgdbm3 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-0-dbg libglib2.0-cil libglib2.0-data
libglib2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libglibmm-2.4-dbg libglibmm-2.4-dev
libgnutls26 libgpg-error0 libgssapi-krb5-2 libhal1 libice6 libidn11
libiw29 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libklibc libkrb5-3 libkrb53
libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 liblzo2-2 libmagic1 libmono-corlib1.0-cil
libmono-system1.0-cil libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev libmysqlclient15off
libncurses5 libncursesw5 libneon27 libnet-daemon-perl libnewt0.52
libopenobex1 libopenobex1-dev libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g
libpcap0.8 libpcre3 libpcsclite1 libplrpc-perl libpng12-0 libpopt0
libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libselinux1 libsepol1 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
libsigc++-2.0-dev libslang2 libslp1 libsm6 libsqlite3-0 libss2 libssh2-1
libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libsysfs2 libtasn1-3 libterm-readkey-perl
libusb-0.1-4 libusb-1.0-0 libusb-dev libuuid1 libwrap0 libx11-6
libx11-data libx86-1 libxau6 libxaw7 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxml++2.6-2
libxml2 libxp6 libxplc0.3.13 libxpm4 lilo linux-libc-dev locales login
logrotate lsb-base makedev mawk mbr mime-support mktemp modconf
module-init-tools mono-common mono-jit mount mysql-client-5.0
mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin
net-tools netbase nmap ntpdate olsrd olsrd-plugins openbsd-inetd
openobex-apps openssh-client openssh-server openssl openvpn parprouted
passwd pciutils perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules php5 php5-common
php5-curl php5-mysql pkg-config portmap ppp pppconfig pppoeconf pptpd
procps psmisc python python-minimal python2.4 python2.4-minimal
readline-common rsync sed sqlite3 ssh strace sudo sysklogd sysv-rc
sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tcl8.4 tcpd tcpdump traceroute tzdata ucf
udev update-inetd util-linux vim vim-common vim-runtime vlan watchdog
wavemon wget whiptail wireless-tools wpasupplicant wvdial x11-common
xml-core zlib1g
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
dpkg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libavformat52
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 286 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/700kB of archives. After unpacking 1544kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Error!
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the dpkg package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?

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I don't know what to do; please help. This is my first post on a forum, so I'm sorry if I made it to long. Thanks in advanced ;).