well, i did an "apt-get install mplayer_nogui", and it didn't warn me about authentication (unlike the GUI previously), and install went well. So either I dreamt the warnings, they were fixed in the meantime, or they were shown by the GUI only -synaptic and update-manager) for some reason.
anyway, marking the bug as "rejected". ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- [edgy] cannot upgrade https://launchpad.net/bugs/64578 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs