Watch DivX under Debian Woody...

juanjavier_xxx · 09-19-2004, 01:41 PM

Performed some search on the forum. Nothing found.
Links on http://pedroreina.net/recetas/divx.html tested
via apt-get install mplayer-386 divx-codecs previously
editing /etc/apt/sources.list gave a not-found error....

Also argentinian web Planeta Linux didn´t work as well...

How could I get mplayer w/DivX codec installed under
Debian Woody?

Thx in advance...

Juanjavier.

leonscape · 09-19-2004, 01:57 PM

Try using the source

ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ for mplayer. This site has the complete mplayer, with all the codecs.

juanjavier_xxx · 09-20-2004, 07:55 AM

I´ve tried using the source

ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ for mplayer.
This site has the complete mplayer, with all the codecs.

...added
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main

...to my sources.list.

Did apt-get update and apt-get install mplayer-386.

This is the output:

Code:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
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:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mplayer-386: Depends: libdirectfb8 but it is not installable
               Depends: libdvdread2 but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages

Any other idea?

I´m a completely novice, don´t you forget.

Many thanks anyway for your help.

Juanjavier.

leonscape · 09-20-2004, 02:36 PM

Try installing libdirectfb8, and libdvdread2 you'll then have more information over why it won't install.

Also I'd recommend removing the other source from your list, and removing anything you installed from there before trying to install things from the new source.

juanjavier_xxx · 09-20-2004, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by leonscape
Try installing libdirectfb8, and libdvdread2 ...

But the output of apt-get tells the packets are not installable...

I tried then to install them and

Code:

E: Package libdirectfb8 has no installation candidate

...and in the case of libdvdread2:

Code:

Package libdvdread2 has no available version, but exists in the
database. This typically means that the package was mentioned
in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is
it not available with the contents of sources.list
E: Package libdvdread2 has no installation candidate

leonscape · 09-20-2004, 05:10 PM

Tru installing one of the other versions ( 586, 686, k6, k7 ) instead. I use it with unstable, so I'm not sure how good it is with stable.