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banjopicker
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Oct 06, 2011

Trouble reinstalling mplayer for use with PlayWMA in Squeeze

I recently had to do a factory restore of 4.2.19 of my Ultra 6, and I am almost finished with setting it all back up, but I am having problems installing mplayer through the command line. Mplayer is required by the "playWMA" plugin in squeezecenter because I have ripped my music collection to WMA and squeezeplay clients won't play WMAs natively without first transcoding them using "playWMA".

Under my previous config, I had no trouble installing mplayer with "apt-get install mplayer" after doing an "apt-get -f install" and "apt-get update". No such luck this time. I keep running into unmet dependencies that are "not going to be installed".

BigBertha:/etc/apt# apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive.debian.org etch Release.gpg [1033B]
Hit http://archive.debian.org etch Release
Ign http://www.readynas.com 4.2.19/ Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://archive.debian.org etch/main Packages
Ign http://www.readynas.com 4.2.19/ Release
Ign http://www.readynas.com 4.2.19/ Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.readynas.com 4.2.19/ Packages
Fetched 1B in 1s (1B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
BigBertha:/etc/apt# apt-get install mplayer
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: Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.8) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
BigBertha:/etc/apt# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
BigBertha:/etc/apt# apt-get install mplayer
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: Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.8) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
BigBertha:/etc/apt#


The only differences I have noticed between this install and previous is that 4.2.19 has apt installed by default--I did not (and could not) install it as an add-on, but it was already present when I tried the command line. Mplayer survived my Raidiator upgrades to 4.2.19 before I had to do the factory reset, so I know it is possible to get it working on there, I just don't know enough about packages and sources to get it working.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

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  • I wasn't able to install mplayer-nogui, but I did get the full mplayer installed--I don't know how much extra overhead this is taking up--but playWMA on squeezecenter is now working. I installed the following dependency, and then the installation of mplayer went ahead fine:
     apt-get install fontconfig-config
    apt-get install mplayer


    FWIW, I made one other change, but I don't know that it made any difference. Just in case someone else tries to install fontconfig-config and it doesn't install, the one other thing I did was to add the following line to my /etc/apt/sources.list :
    deb http://archive.debian.org/debian etch non-free

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