How to install packages from unofficial.debian-maintainers.org on a "testing" system
 

(Edit: See the later post for the solution.)

I'm trying to download libdvdcss package from http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ and am getting nowhere. This is what I did so far:

Added these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
I then downloaded the key via:
Then added the key via:
Then did the update:
All of that went well, but then when I try to download and install libdvdcss, I get an error:
(Edit: See a later post for a speculation as to why the error message about libdvdcss not being "available" above; I think it is because libdvdcss2 exists, but libdvdcss does not.)

My current /etc/apt/sources.list file reads:

Yes, I know it must be that I have "testing" and not "lenny" there. Should I be using something other than "lenny", and if so, what matches with "testing" these days?

Thanks,
bg

Edit: I do note that squeeze/testing section on that web page:
But it states "not yet populated" so I'm looking for alternatives.

deb-src http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ squeeze/backports main contrib non-free restricted

The packages in "lenny/backports" will depend on other packages in lenny proper. You have no lines for lenny in your sources.list.

I'm a little confused as to what you are trying to do. Your system appears to be primarily using testing (squeeze to answer you question), but you are trying to install packges backported to lenny (stable).

If it is your intention to track testing, replace "lenny/backports" with "testing/backports" (or perhaps "squeeze/backports", depending on how the repo is setup). I just had a look at http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ and it seems that the testing repo is not populated with packages yet... so you'll have to wait till it is.


Evo2.

Seems you edited while I was replying.

Regarding alternatives, it depends what packges you want. I've always found http://debian-multimedia.org useful.

Evo2.

Thanks. I will wait. I can also always build the libdvdcss from sources if I care enough about it, which I don't (but that doesn't suit me right now so I won't).

bg

Use debian-multimedia.org, the only things I see that aren't there are opera and skype and they have their own repos anyway.

debian-multimedia.org solves it
 

I verified that the debian-multimedia.org approach does work. Thanks a heap.

Things just simply work. But there is no "libdvdcss" package anymore from what I can tell; it is called "libdvdcss2" for some odd reason.

bg

Thanks!
 

Hi, you made my day!
It was so frustrating, and now: Great cinema even on my nice eeePC, running squeeze "stable"!

Thanks!
Niklaus