May be you forget to do "apt-get update"? Send here your sources.list and we'll tell you if there's something wrong with it.
Alexey On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:37 AM, lrhorer <lrho...@satx.rr.com> wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> lrhorer wrote: >>>> Have you tried getting packages from >>>> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org/>? >>>> >>> >>> On your advice, I just tried there. There are a ton of unmet >>> dependencies, many of which I can't find at all. For example, the >>> ffmpeg .deb package on the site depends on libavcodec52 (and about a >>> dozen others) which is not loaded. When I try to load libavcodec52, >>> it depends on libdirac-encoder0, which does not seem to be on the >>> site, and indeed which I cannot find on any of the Debian distro >>> sites I >>> know. It's not the only one, by a long shot. >>> >> >> Are you trying to manually install the .deb? You can do that, but >> it'll be complicated: you'll need to download all dependencies from >> that site, and the dependencies of those dependencies, and so on. >> >> Let apt do the work for you. Add the repository (address and >> instructions are on that page) and then just use aptitude install >> ffmpeg. > > I tried that, but I could not get it to work. I think I was setting up > my sources list incorrectly. I must have been inputting something > wrong, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
