On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:37:03PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 09 Jul 2021 at 15:05:20 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:41:17PM +0200, Joerg Kampmann wrote: > > > Hello - I tried to install ffmpeg (a normal Debian package) and got some > > > strange messages. the ffmpeg-group adviced me to go to a Debian group. I > > > hope I am correct here in this group. > > > > > > I am running Debian 9 on a Fujitsu TX 100 S1 computer ... > > > > This is not the current stable release. You may wish to *consider* > > upgrading, as running older releases tends to be incompatible with > > the desire to install recent versions of web browsers, video players, > > and other large and complicated packages. > > The OP says: > > Hello - I tried to install ffmpeg... > > This is on Debian 9. Either it installs or it doesn't. It did for me. > > Not being the current release seems neither here nor there.
We shall see. I have a theory that they tried to add buster sources (or buster-backports, or some third-party repository meant for buster) because they wanted newer stuff than was available in stretch or stretch-backports. Frankendebian ensued.
