Hi all, I am using the unstable version of Debian and am trying to install Mplayer, amongst other software but i run in to the following errors when trying to install this and other software.

Please if you can offer assistance then let me know.

Thanks

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apt-get install mplayer-686
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer-686: Depends: libavcodec1 (>= 1:0.4.8-woody0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libvorbis0 (>= 1.0rc3-1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
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Londonboi

Sometimes, in testing/unstable, package dependencies get broken.
For example, trying to install KDE in testing - last time I checked, there was just no way to do it. have to install it unstable.

It's likely this will be fixed. eventually. For now:
try:
apt-get -t testing install mplayer-686

See if the testing version is working. If not, download and compile mplayer from source. that's what I did.

--Rounan

is that package 'officially' from debian ? If you install packages from respository not from Debian , things might break. BTW, I don't think mplayer is ever officially accepted in Debian. The mplayer core team once claimed Debian sucks on their site and that caused some great long discussion on the debian ml.

Hi, no this is not from the official debian repositories, it is one that i added from apt-get website.

However i know the packages are not broken because it works fine on my laptop, so i am sure this is a problem with something eles

Londonboi

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main ?

I installed from the above link on testing yesterday and had no problems. Tried a source compile before that which was full of errors which I abandoned.

if you install from source and error is missing some file, debian has most i(f not all) of those in lib*-dev .... just apt-cache search filename dev and install that libfile-dev.

Hi, Using this one it worked perfectly, altho it would not install mplayer-686 it installed mplayer-586

Thanks for that

Londonboi