Quote 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.
Code:
## Various Multimedia Helper Apps Mplayer, Real, etc.. ##
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
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.