unmet dependecies in apt-get

[c01100011]

i just tried dselect update one more time and IT WORKED !. Maybe it was my Cable connnection it was a little slugish.
i no longer get the same error message about "unmet dependecies" but now it says

root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-get --reinstall install mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package mplayer needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

wierd responce almost scary not everyday my computer says I...

yet again HELP
(sorry for being such a newbie)

[rickenbacherus]

Try an apt-cache search mplayer and see what packages you have available. Then apt-get install mplayer-<arch>

[c01100011]

i got this
i am not sure what i am supposed to do with it

root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-cache search mplayer
mplayer-doc - Documentation for mplayer
acidrip - ripping and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder
kplayer - A KDE media player based on MPlayer
libpostproc0 - Mplayer postproc shared libraries
libpostproc-dev - Mplayer postproc devel files
mencoder-586 - MPlayer's Movie Encoder
mencoder-k6 - MPlayer's Movie Encoder
mplayer-386 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
mplayer-586 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
mplayer-686 - transitional dummy package which can be safely removed
mplayer-fonts - Fonts for mplayer
mplayer-k6 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
mplayer-k7 - transitional dummy package which can be safely removed
mplayer-mozilla - Empty package to install the official package
mplayer-nogui - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
mga-vid-source - Kernel driver for the back-end scaler on Matrox cards (source)
movixmaker-2 - Utility to create customized eMoviX/MoviX/MoviX² CD images
mozilla-mplayer - MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla, Konqueror and OpenOffice.org
xmms-xmmplayer - XMMS plugin that uses MPlayer to play video files
mplayer -

[Stephen]

i just tried dselect update one more time and IT WORKED !. Maybe it was my Cable connnection it was a little slugish.
i no longer get the same error message about "unmet dependecies" but now it says

root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-get --reinstall install mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package mplayer needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

wierd responce almost scary not everyday my computer says I...

yet again HELP
(sorry for being such a newbie)

You need mplayer-??? with the ??? being the arch you want. For the most compatible apt-get install --reinstall mplayer-386 will give you a reinstall if already installed of the 386 mplayer version if you have a pentium mplayer-586, an athlon mplayer-k7. To find what you already have installed dpkg -l | grep mplayer-*.

[c01100011]

root@silver:/home/c01100011# dpkg -l | grep mplayer-*
iHR mplayer 0.90-3

now what

(i promise i will get better)

[Stephen]

root@silver:/home/c01100011# dpkg -l | grep mplayer-*
iHR mplayer 0.90-3

now what

(i promise i will get better)

apt-get --purge remove mplayer then apt-get install mplayer-386 to get a proper package.

[c01100011]

root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-get --purge remove mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package mplayer needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

same probem

[Stephen]

root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-get --purge remove mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package mplayer needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

same probem

Just install the mplayer-386 package then and it should upgrade the package to the higher version.

[c01100011]

root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-get install mplayer-386
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package mplayer needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
root@silver:/

[Stephen]

root@silver:/home/c01100011# apt-get install mplayer-386
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package mplayer needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
root@silver:/

Can I see the output of apt-cache policy mplayer and apt-cache policy mplayer-386?