Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 10:01:23PM +0000, Long Wind wrote: >> there is a typo in my last post: not -> now >> the cause might be i use installation CD 9.3.0but now apt source is >> newest (ftp.utexas.edu) >> >> On Sunday, March 4, 2018 4:55 PM, Long Wind <longwi...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> the cause might be i use installation CD 9.3.0but not apt source is >> newest (ftp.utexas.edu) >> below is error msg of "apt-get install mplayer"is it possible to fix it? >> Thanks! >> >> Reading package lists... >> Building dependency tree... >> Reading state information... >> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable >> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created >> or been moved out of Incoming. >> The following information may help to resolve the situation: >> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> mplayer : Depends: libavcodec57 (>= 7:3.2.2) but it is not going to be >> installed or >> libavcodec-extra57 (>= 7:3.2.2) but it is not going >> to be installed >> Depends: libavformat57 (>= 7:3.2.2) but it is not going to be >> installed Depends: libswresample2 (>= 7:3.2.2) but it is not >> going to be installed >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >> >> >> > Do apt update && apt upgrade as root, and see what it wants to do. You > don't have to let it do it -- you can answer N when it asks for > confirmation on the upgrade -- but you can see if it wants to upgrade a > ton of packages. If it does, my suggestion would be to let it do so and > then try the installation again. >
Alternatively related to those multimedia packages I sometimes need to apt-get install --reinstall, which pulls some dependencies. sudo apt-get install --reinstall libavcodec57 libavcodec-extra57 libavformat57 libswresample2 regards
