On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:21, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: > Hi , > I run Debian-testing i386 , > I was trying to install the Mozilla mplayer plugin using Synaptics , > and this is what I got back !!.. > > mozilla-mplayer: > Depends: mplayer (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-custom (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-386 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-586 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-686 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-k6 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-k7 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-powerpc (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-g4 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-amd64 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplayer-nogui (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable > Any Idea , do I need to install mplayer first or there is a way around this
On my Etch system, I had a similar problem and had to install one I compiled from source I got from the official site. It's been a while since I did that, so I am going to try it again. BTW I used checkinstall to make a deb package after I compiled the mplayer source. ii mozilla-mplayer 3.21-1 MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla ii mplayer 1.0-pre8-0.1 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux ii mplayer-skin-blue 1.5-0.5 default skin for mplayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy mozilla-mplayer mozilla-mplayer: Installed: 3.21-1 Candidate: 3.21-1 Version table: *** 3.21-1 0 990 http://mirrors.kernel.org testing/contrib Packages 990 http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]