I sincerely want to learn linux. I am curretnly a reluctant osx user and I used unix in my college days. I have tried various distributions, but I encounter roadblock after roadblock. Is this really nerds only?]
Currently I am trying to setup a a music server. I want a player that will allow for a smart playlist, or import one. I can not even install the players out there.
Currently my gripe is with Debian. I just don't know where to start. This is what I tried and I have no idea. BTW, this is what the websites advise you do IF you have Debian. Of course NONE of them are up to date about the latest stable release. And I as a Newbie have NO idea if that even matterrs.







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hawki@hawki-HP:~$ sudo apt-get install audacious
[sudo] password for hawki:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
audacious : Depends: audacious-plugins (>= 3.6.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
hawki@hawki-HP:~$ pwd
/home/hawki
hawki@hawki-HP:~$ apt-get install amarok
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
hawki@hawki-HP:~$ sudo apt-get install amarok
[sudo] password for hawki:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amarok : Depends: kde-runtime (> 4:4.10) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: phonon but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: kio-audiocd but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
hawki@hawki-HP:~$ ^C
hawki@hawki-HP:~$

Please post the output of:
Please use code tags when posting terminal output.

If this is a new install, you need to update your repository cache, as the root user or using sudo,
then run,

Welcome to Linux Questions!

Yes. Linux (Distro's) should have a manual documenting all the software it installs.

There is usually man or info pages but it needs technical prowess.

Web search is your friend.

Before an apt-get install, you may want to do an apt-get update.

I can't believe nobody has noticed that apt-get is not being run as root. Either su to root or use sudo to run apt-get and if that makes no sense look into it a little.

Also, RE: the documentation being not about the latest stable version of Debian - to be fair, Debian 8 has only just landed and Debian doesn't go through fast release cycles like some of its derivatives. Newer documentation will come shortly...

The OP shows sudo being used. He forgot once, but retried with it. This looks, at least superficially, to be a matter of not doing an update before trying to install packages. I suggest following the advice above and doing that.

Habituals signature pretty much explains that for me .

I run a music server in my Motorcycle Shop. What's College?

Errrr. Click my name to see my picture in my profile. I am a UNIVERSE apart from being a nerd.

until the OP "hawkiboy" posts back
not much we can do

amarok is what you want
BUT !!!

you need to install software as ROOT !!!

if you set up " sudo" you can use that
or use "su -"

so

#1
What version of Debain is this ?
7.8 or 8.1 ( or something older )


#2

become root and run "update"
then install amarok

I obviously have too much going on but I got back to this tonight and was delighted to see all the helpful replies.
I did the sudo apt-get update and that hummed away, but still get the same erro Apparently I need to install some dependencies dulu.

Following is output:


hawki@hawki-HP:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for hawki:
Get:1 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease [63.1 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie InRelease [134 kB]
Get:3 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources [60.7 kB]
Get:4 http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid InRelease [24.4 kB]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages [102 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [126 kB]
Get:7 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en [55.6 kB]
Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid InRelease
Get:8 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main Sources [7,059 kB]
Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Get:9 http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/main amd64 Packages [151 kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,768 kB]
Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid/main Translation-en
Get:11 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4,585 kB]
Get:12 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [2,473 B]
Get:13 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [505 B]
Get:14 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [229 B]
Get:15 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2015-06-17-2128.26.pdiff [527 B]
Get:16 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2015-06-17-2128.26.pdiff [527 B]
Fetched 19.1 MB in 10s (1,790 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 5C808C2B65558117


hawki@hawki-HP:~$ apt-get install audacious
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?


hawki@hawki-HP:~$ sudo apt-get install audacious
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
audacious : Depends: audacious-plugins (>= 1:3.6.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
hawki@hawki-HP:~$

Not 100% sure but I think one of your problems might be that you have your sources pointed to different Debian versions. Most of them are pointed at Jessie, but some, e.g. the multimedia stuff, is pointed at sid. You should only do this if you know what you are doing...

As requested before can you please post your sources.list.
Also there seems to a key to be missing that you might have to import...

The missing key isn't important. It's just a security issue, and you can still install from the repository without the key. But the dependency problems are almost certainly because of the mix of sid and jessie. That's a huge no-no, unless you really know what you're doing, and pin things properly, which the OP almost certainly doesn't, and hasn't. The situation may be unrecoverable without doing a reinstallation, but it's probably worth a try changing the multimedia repository to jessie and doing an update. It probably won't help, but it can't get much worse than it already is.

@OP: Your system is broken.

Read this:
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDeb..._FrankenDebian