On 11/6/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't seem to get mplayer to install on ubuntu. If I do an: > > apt-get install mplayer-386... I get: > > sudo apt-get install mplayer-386 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > 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. > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > mplayer-386: Depends: libdirectfb-0.9-20 but it is not installable > E: Broken packages > > > However, I have a newer version of the libdirectfb package, I actually > have libdirectfb-0.9-22. Any clues on how to get mplayer in there? > I've currently got: > > # Christian Marillat's packages (mplayer, lame) > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main > #deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main > #deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main > > and I've tried the etch and sid ones, but that didn't make much of a > difference. > > Thanks! > Matt > _______________________________________________
If that's it's only dependency, you could just force the RPM: rpm -Uvh --no-deps --force filename.rpm Cool _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
