Stoker;202381 Wrote: > Thanks Guys > > I followed your advice and now I'm listening to Abbey Road at work > without drop outs! > > If anyone else needs info here is exactly what I did to get this > working: > > 1) log in to debian machine as root. > 2) edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list by adding 'deb > http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main' (no quotes) to the file > before any other uncommented entries. > 3) from the command promt run: apt-get update > 4) from the command prompt run apt-get install lame > > Thats it, simple when you know how! > > Thanks again for the help
No, that't not it. And it isn't that simple. in step 4) the installer says: The following packages have unmet dependencies. lame: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 is to be installed Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) but 5.5-5 is to be installed E: Broken packages Did you get this? If not, how have you got the required versions of these libs? How did you install them. I'm using debian 4 etch - i.e the latest. It doesn't seem straightforward to upgrade clib6 for 2.3.x to 2.7.1 - for example in the synaptic installer gui the force version option is greyed out and not selectable - so you can't make it get 2.7.1. Attempting to uninstall clib6 to reinstall the later version might be another way - but when it is marked for uninstall, synaptic also marks a whole list of dependent packages that will be uninstalled as well, some of them look fundamental to the system, and uninstalling those and clib6 could render the system unusuable and require a reinstall of debian itself. So not an option to try really. Is it any wonder that Linux is not that popular yet? Because of irritating complexities like this? I've got a life to live, I don't want to be indoors sat in front of a computer tinkering. Linux makes a virtue out of complexity. -- rjamesd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rjamesd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17010 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35331 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
