Am / On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:28:45 +0100 schrieb / wrote Toerless Eckert <[email protected]>:
> The whole reason why i got into the trouble of adding > deb-multimedia as a repo was to be able to install > avidemux. It is not listed in your above list of > DebianMultimedia packages, but it shows up in > https://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/video although > that page leaves me even more confused as to how i would > be able to install it without deb-multimedia because it > just says "Debian package not available", and relase > "VCS" (no idea what VCS is). 1. There was an attempt to build a debian-avidemux-package in 2012 (Bug#203211: RFP: avidemux), which wasn't successful, but this may be the reason for this. 2. The problem with deb-multimedia is that it's based on some multimedia-programs and libraries (like ffmeg, libx264 etc) which are non-free and not in Debian, or that are also in Debian, but in different Versions. To make sure, that the people using his repository only get his packages, Marillat gives them a higher Version-Epoch. But this has the result, that you have to install his versions of many packages to install even the smallest peace of software, for which all dependencies also could be resolved in the Debian archives. 3. So: If you really want to use deb-multimedia.org, you may do this by apt and pinning the repository to -900 in /etc/apt/preferences. But the better way is to do it 'by hand' (downloading packages and install via dpkg). If this isn't possible, in most cases it's possible to download Marillats source-packages, adjust the versions of the dependencies in the Debian/control-file and the version of the package in Debian/changelog and recompile/rebuild the package: fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage E.G.: avidemux depends on libaften0 which is not in Debian (because non-free) but can be used from Marillat without any dependencies. All other dependencies (libx264, libx265) can be resolved within Debian, but you have to adjust the versions in new-build avidemux-packages. Hope this helps! klaumi ----------- Klaumi Klingsporn mail: [email protected] web: www.klaumikli.de
