unmet dependecies in apt-get
in an attempt to install mplayer i broke apt-get again ( differently this time ) i looked around at other posts of simmilar problems but didn't find anything that worked for me. Thanks in adavace.
PS- a fast solution would be nice b/c i would like to get an updated version of the gimp
c01100011@silver:~$ su
Password:
root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-get install gaim
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
gaim is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer: Depends: libvorbis0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
root@silver:/home/c01100011#
Re: unmet dependecies in apt-get
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Originally Posted by c01100011
in an attempt to install mplayer i broke apt-get again ( differently this time ) i looked around at other posts of simmilar problems but didn't find anything that worked for me. Thanks in adavace.
PS- a fast solution would be nice b/c i would like to get an updated version of the gimp
Open the file /etc/apt/sources.list for editing and put a # character in front of all the lines that have stable (from Debian) in them. While still editing the file change the line you have for mplayer to this.
To actually be installing Mplayer from the unstable branch instead of the stable that it looks like you have done. Now use dselect update to get both the apt and dpkg databases back in sync and then try apt-get --reinstall install mplayer-??? replace the ??? with the arch that you need 386, 686 or k7 and hopefully this solves the problem.
