Problems installing mplayer on fresh Debian XFCE install "

displacedtexan · 09-16-2009, 03:21 PM

Ok... I just did a fresh install of Debian 5 on an old laptop that I would like to use in the car as a portable media player. I chose the XFCE desktop environment and added the following to my /etc/apt/sources.list:

Code:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb-src  http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

When I try to install mplayer I get the following:

Code:

# 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: libartsc0 (>= 1.5.9) but it is not installable
           Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
           Depends: libcdparanoia0 (>= 3.10.2+debian) but it is not installable
           Depends: libdv4 but it is not installable
           Depends: libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.9) but it is not installable
           Depends: libggi2 (>= 1:2.2.2) but it is not installable
           Depends: libgif4 (>= 4.1.6) but it is not installable
           Depends: liblircclient0 but it is not installable
           Depends: liblzo2-2 but it is not installable
           Depends: libopenal1 but it is not installable
           Depends: mplayer-skin but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Google didn't seem to help much.

Anybody have any ideas how to correct?

Thanks!

the trooper · 09-16-2009, 03:28 PM

If you just want mplayer with no gui try:

Code:

aptitude install mplayer-nogui

Or if you would like a front end try:

Code:

aptitude install mplayer-nogui smplayer

You can substitute aptitude for apt-get if you prefer.

Edit:Looking at those error messages again,it might be worth posting the full output of your sources.list

displacedtexan · 09-16-2009, 03:38 PM

Thanks for the help, but it was self-inflicted.

I disabled the cd repository in the sources.list yet I didn't add replace it with the normal Debian repository.

Dogh!

the trooper · 09-16-2009, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by displacedtexan

Thanks for the help, but it was self-inflicted.

I disabled the cd repository in the sources.list yet I didn't add replace it with the normal Debian repository.

Dogh!

No worries,it's an easy fix then.