Newbie: need help getting mplayer installed (dep hell)
I'd appreciate any help someone could give trying to get mplayer installed in the newest knoppix 3.3 9/24/03.
I've remastered it getting rid of all games, koffice, language packs to make room and getting rid of unnecesary/unused packages but when it came to replacing xine with mplayer 0.90 I got some dependency hell with libvorbis. libvorbis0a 1.0.0-3 (176kb) is already installed but mplayer wants libvorbis0 1.0rc3. I've finally gotten a repository with the correct version but when I try to update the package it tells me it will also take kde-base and several other packages (40mb) with it. Which obviously I don't wanna do that but I'm not sure what I need to do. I am a relative newbie to linux, only been on for a year or so and trying to get into debian cause I love apt-get and redhat is getting annoying.
i'd really appreciate your time and help
thanks in advance
Geoff
Re: Newbie: need help getting mplayer installed (dep hell)
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Originally Posted by freeballer
I'd appreciate any help someone could give trying to get mplayer installed in the newest knoppix 3.3 9/24/03.
I've remastered it getting rid of all games, koffice, language packs to make room and getting rid of unnecesary/unused packages but when it came to replacing xine with mplayer 0.90 I got some dependency hell with libvorbis. libvorbis0a 1.0.0-3 (176kb) is already installed but mplayer wants libvorbis0 1.0rc3. I've finally gotten a repository with the correct version but when I try to update the package it tells me it will also take kde-base and several other packages (40mb) with it. Which obviously I don't wanna do that but I'm not sure what I need to do. I am a relative newbie to linux, only been on for a year or so and trying to get into debian cause I love apt-get and redhat is getting annoying.
i'd really appreciate your time and help
thanks in advance
Geoff
Ok try this.
You need to open /etc/apt/sources.list in a text editor and add the repositories listed at the bottom of this page (at least the testing and unstable entries.
Then do an apt-get update.
Finally try installing mplayer with this command.
apt-get -t unstable install mplayer
The "-t unstable" part should help you out with your dependencies. It works for me at least.
thanks to both garyng & aay
thank you both for your help in this matter, you've both given me some great ideas to get this working and i appreciate your help. I just wanted to say that again cause you've both given me some great info