Hello

I followed the following steps to install mplayer but getting error. Please help me

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ripps818/coreavc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer
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:
mplayer : Depends: mplayer2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The problem here is that you are using one of those unsupported and unreliable PPA repos to install MPlayer. If you install the MPlayer from the standard Ubuntu repos it will work just fine.
The Ubuntu developers do not support those PPA repos. You install packages from those PPA repos at your own risk.
You need to understand that Ubuntu just works best when you stick with the packages that are provided in the standard Ubuntu repos. The more that you try to fight this, the more that you risk causing problems like this.
I always stick with the default Ubuntu repos, and I never have problems like this.

@tommcd:

Hello
Thanx for your reply
I am a newbie so I dont know much about ubuntu, I follwed what I found after googlin on the topic. Can you please suggest me some reliable ppa to rectify this problem.

No, I can not.
As I said in my last post, just install the MPlayer that is provided in the standard Ubuntu repos.
Of course, you will need to purge that rogue PPA repo, then install MPLayer from the Ubuntu repos.

Why do you want to install MPlayer from a PPA instead of just installing the MPlayer that is already provided in the Ubuntu repos?

Bcecause I don't know how to do that. I did what I found after googling. Now trying to search method to install mplayer via ubuntu repo. It will be very helpful for me if you can tell me to do so.

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You could easily enough rid yourself of the PPA and simply install MPlayer with something like:

which is what tommcd is suggesting . I run a guide for building a more up to date version if you are ever interested:

Howto: Build the svn MPlayer under the latest release version of Ubuntu
http://www.andrews-corner.org/mplayer.html

but perhaps the repository MPlayer with SMPlayer might be enough....

First, completely remove any MPLayer that you have installed:
Then you should remove that MPlayer PPA repo that you added because it is obviously not working for you. See this to remove PPA repos:
See this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/307/h...pas-be-removed
The command to remove your MPlayer PPA would be:
You can also remove PPA repos with ppa-purge. First install ppa-purge:
Then to remove your MPlayer PPA:
See this: http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/02/how-...icial-ppa.html
And see this to get a graphical tool to use ppa-purge by installing ubuntu-tweak:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/29584...ons-in-ubuntu/

Then update your repositories now that MPlayer and that PPA have been purged:
Then finally install the MPlayer from the standard Ubuntu repos:
You could also add the smplayer (a user friendly front end for MPlayer) that Andrew 46 suggested if you wish:
The smplayer does make a nice GUI front end for MPlayer: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

Please understand that the packages in the standard Ubuntu repos should always bo your first choice for installing any software on Ubuntu. Those are that packages that the Ubuntu developers have tested and are known to work on Ubuntu.
See this tutorial for installing software on Ubuntu:
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware
If you are new to Linux and Ubuntu, I would strongly recommend that you read that entire website. It is a very good beginner's introduction to Ubuntu and Linux.