Luverly Linux

[jæd]

Everyone, please pay particular attention to this ...

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amule: Depends: libcurl2 (>= 7.11.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

See reply #57...

 

[jæd]

Thanks -- for that I'll try that tonight. Interesting to know about the log out being more important than restart.

Logging in and out only restarts your session, but there are programs which hook into this. (You can get away with just restarting the gnome panel, the ubuntuguide for details...) Restarting is a handy way of restarting everything but in linux you can do all of this seperately.

The only time you ever actually need to restart is when a new kernal is installed... (Kernal = intricate gubbins deep inside the o/s you really should avoid messing with)

 

[Jonti]

... using the Terminal Window ... entered the following:

sudo apt-get install mplayer-386

... (which) returned the following text.

myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer-386
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package mplayer-386 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
mplayer-custom
E: Package mplayer-386 has no installation candidate
...

KeyboardJockey, what this is telling you is that, right now, trying to install mplayer-386 is just not going to work for you. Trying to install it results in an error as indicated by the line ...
E: Package mplayer-386 has no installation candidate
That there is "no installation candidate" means, in other words, that mplayer-386 ain't available in your software package repositories. You can change which software package repositories you are using, but there is no need to do that just yet. The message goes on to suggest you use mplayer-custom instead...
the following packages replace it: mplayer-custom.

So in English, instead of
sudo apt-get install mplayer-386
try
sudo apt-get install mplayer-custom

 

[Jonti]

See reply #57...

Well, yes, I understand what you are suggesting, and your suggestion is a good one. But there is a snag with what you typed in reply #57. I know it's just a typing error, but not everyone would understand what is going on if they tried to follow your instructions
>> sudo apt get -f install
sudo: apt: command not found

 

[Jonti]

Originally Posted by KeyboardJockey
... using the Terminal Window ... entered the following:

sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer

this ... returned the following text.

myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
mplayer-fonts is already the newest version.
...
myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
mozilla-mplayer is already the newest version.

This tells us that you already have mplayer-fonts and mozilla-mplayer installed on your system OK, and they are both up-to-date. No worries there, then.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

This is brilliant with all your help I'm beginning to be able to read the output of the terminal window. Fantastic

 

[Jonti]

I'm wondering if it is anything to to with the vlc / vls filethat my friend told me to download as a media player which I have deleted (probably wrongly me thinks )

Can you tell us a little more about this, please? It may be useful for folks here to know
a) the name of the file you downloaded
b) or where you got it from
c) how you installed it
d) how you uninstalled/removed/deleted it

For now, I strongly urge you only use synaptic or apt-get. They will both install only the packages in the Ubuntu repositories, unless and until you tell them otherwise. There's enough software in the Ubuntu repositories to meet your immediate needs, I'm sure.

 

[Jonti]

using the Terminal Window .. entered the following:
...
sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
...
this ... returned the following text.

myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts
...
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amule: Depends: libcurl2 (>= 7.11.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
...
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amule: Depends: libcurl2 (>= 7.11.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

Hi Strumpet,
You'll recall that when you ran the package manager to install mplayer-fonts it explained that you had them installed and up-to-date already. Now, in checking your system to find that out, it also noticed a problem with your installed packages...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amule: Depends: libcurl2 (>= 7.11.2-1) but it is not going to be installed

What that means is that the amule package uses another bundle of software called libcurl2. The version of libcurl2 that aMule needs is 7.11.2-1 or higher. So far so good. But, oh, dear, the package manager is not going to install it for you. That means your aMule, as installed, may well play up. But does it? Have you noticed anything wrong with it yet?

Actually, if you insist, the package manager will install it for you. But let's just check what it has suggested, which, as you can see, is
apt-get -f install

If you open a terminal window and type "info apt-get" or "man apt-get" you will learn this about apt-get and the -f option

-f, --fix-broken
Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. Any Package that are specified must completely correct the problem. The option is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system.

Ah Ha! So, if we use apt-get we will never have broken package dependencies. But we may need to get things set up properly first. That makes sense. You may as well try
sudo apt-get -f install
and tell us what happens.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Can you tell us a little more about this, please? It may be useful for folks here to know

a) the name of the file you downloaded

vlc media player

b) or where you got it from

via sudo apt-get vlc

c) how you installed it

It didn't appear to function same problem as before. hit enter and used password in terminal window after apt-get problem with libcurl2 IIRC .

d) how you uninstalled/removed/deleted it

dragged and droppedinto the wastebasket from the Bin Folder.

For now, I strongly urge you only use synaptic or apt-get. They will both install only the packages in the Ubuntu repositories, unless and until you tell them otherwise. There's enough software in the Ubuntu repositories to meet your immediate needs, I'm sure.

Something tells me I might have to replace this.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Hi Strumpet,
You'll recall that when you ran the package manager to install mplayer-fonts it explained that you had them installed and up-to-date already. Now, in checking your system to find that out, it also noticed a problem with your installed packages...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amule: Depends: libcurl2 (>= 7.11.2-1) but it is not going to be installed

What that means is that the amule package uses another bundle of software called libcurl2. The version of libcurl2 that aMule needs is 7.11.2-1 or higher. So far so good. But, oh, dear, the package manager is not going to install it for you. That means your aMule, as installed, may well play up. But does it? Have you noticed anything wrong with it yet?

So far no problems with aMule. Working fine as far as I can make out.

Actually, if you insist, the package manager will install it for you. But let's just check what it has suggested, which, as you can see, is
apt-get -f install

I tried that command in the terminal window. Zilch.

If you open a terminal window and type "info apt-get" or "man apt-get" you will learn this about apt-get and the -f option

-f, --fix-broken
Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. Any Package that are specified must completely correct the problem. The option is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system.

I've had several 'broken package ' warnings in Synaptic and I've gone Edit-Fix Broken Packages but it don't seem to be changing anything.

Ah Ha! So, if we use apt-get we will never have broken package dependencies. But we may need to get things set up properly first. That makes sense. You may as well try
sudo apt-get -f install
and tell us what happens.

I'll try this tonight. I'm sure I've tried this before as it was something on the Ubuntu forums guide.

 

[Jonti]

dragged and dropped (vic) into the wastebasket from the Bin Folder.

Ah yes. Yes. Mmmm. Gosh. Right. OK. Oh dear.

I've gotta go now (no, it's really true). But, fwiw, I think we may well have got your issue cornered here. It is important that the package manager is used to uninstall software as well as install it. It doesn't matter if you use the terminal and apt-get, or the desktop and Synaptic. They are just two different ways of using the *same* package management system. But please do use the package management system to remove as well as to install all your software (for now). That makes it easier for the package manager to keep track of things in all their gory detail.

Let's see what other folks have to say about the vic installation and removal, and whether it may have anything to do with the errors synaptic/apt-get has been reporting.

Meanwhile, I'd suggest you have a play around with Synaptic. Find some games to install, check them out, and remove them again. That sort of thing. Just for practice like, to familiarise yourself with how it all works.

 

[Jonti]

vlc multimedia player for all audio and video formats

I've just checked with a liveCD and the vlc multimedia player isn't in the default set of repositories (ubuntu 5.10). It's in my current set of repositories though, and an ubuntu package alright. Can Synaptic tell one which repository (repositories?) a package is from? Knowing linux, it must be possible to do it from the Command Line User Environment ("CLUE"). Anyone?

Anyway, based on the liveCD respositories, the default Ubuntu multimedia player seems to be xmms; whereas Kubuntu uses noatun. Best stick with those until you've grokked the security implications of package management. Basically, you have to be able to know how you can trust the software you install. You're safe with the Ubuntu defaults, and you can use the same tools to draw on a far wider range of packages. The reason for that, of course, is that anyone can write a software package that plays nice with Synaptic -- it's open source and GPL, after all.

This is what synaptic told me about VLC, if anyone's interested ...

VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP.

VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional audio plugins (vlc-plugin-esd, vlc-plugin-alsa, vlc-plugin-arts) or video plugins (vlc-plugin-sdl, vlc-plugin-ggi, vlc-plugin-glide, vlc-plugin-svgalib). There is also a web browser plugin in the mozilla-plugin-vlc package.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Have you tried "sudo apt-get -f install", or installing libcurl2 ("sudo apt-get install libcurl2")...?

Also, when you tried to install m-player it wasn't found... Did you try installing "sudo apt-get install mplayer-custom"...? But it looks like m-player is already installed. What does "whereis mplayer" produce...? It finds something then try running it. eg:

jæd@erewhon:~ $ whereis mplayer
mplayer: /usr/bin/mplayer /etc/mplayer /usr/lib/mplayer /usr/bin/X11/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/etc/mplayer /usr/local/lib/mplayer /usr/share/mplayer /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz 
jæd@erewhon:~ $ mplayer

Going whereis mplayer give me

myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo whereis mplayer
Password:
mplayer: /usr/bin/mplayer /etc/mplayer /usr/lib/mplayer /usr/share/mplayer /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz
myrealname@ubuntu:~$

which is different fromwhat you've got.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

I've just checked with a liveCD and the vlc multimedia player isn't in the default set of repositories (ubuntu 5.10). It's in my current set of repositories though, and an ubuntu package alright. Can Synaptic tell one which repository (repositories?) a package is from? Knowing linux, it must be possible to do it from the Command Line User Environment ("CLUE"). Anyone?

Anyway, based on the liveCD respositories, the default Ubuntu multimedia player seems to be xmms; whereas Kubuntu uses noatun. Best stick with those until you've grokked the security implications of package management. Basically, you have to be able to know how you can trust the software you install. You're safe with the Ubuntu defaults, and you can use the same tools to draw on a far wider range of packages. The reason for that, of course, is that anyone can write a software package that plays nice with Synaptic -- it's open source and GPL, after all.

This is what synaptic told me about VLC, if anyone's interested ...

VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP.

VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional audio plugins (vlc-plugin-esd, vlc-plugin-alsa, vlc-plugin-arts) or video plugins (vlc-plugin-sdl, vlc-plugin-ggi, vlc-plugin-glide, vlc-plugin-svgalib). There is also a web browser plugin in the mozilla-plugin-vlc package.

Gone into Synaptic Package Manager and tried to DL VLC as I didn't try this before as I'd only tried through the terminal window. Got an error message that is very similar to before.

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl2_7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt', which is also in package libcurl3

I'm going to log out and log in again to see if it installs this. the problem is if I quite SPM it says that marked changes will be lost

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Have you tried "sudo apt-get -f install", or installing libcurl2 ("sudo apt-get install libcurl2")...?

That just give me this:


myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install libcurl2
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
libcurl2-gssapi ca-certificates
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libcurl2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 360 not upgraded.
39 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/223kB of archives.
After unpacking 549kB of additional disk space will be used.

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 59291 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libcurl2 (from .../libcurl2_7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl2_7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt', which is also in package libcurl3
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl2_7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
myrealname@ubuntu:~$

The other command 'sudo apt-get -f install' gives me


myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libcurl2
Suggested packages:
libcurl2-gssapi ca-certificates
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libcurl2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 360 not upgraded.
39 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/223kB of archives.
After unpacking 549kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 59291 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libcurl2 (from .../libcurl2_7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl2_7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt', which is also in package libcurl3
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl2_7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
myrealname@ubuntu:~$

Also, when you tried to install m-player it wasn't found... Did you try installing "sudo apt-get install mplayer-custom"...? But it looks like m-player is already installed. What does "whereis mplayer" produce...? It finds something then try running it. eg:

jæd@erewhon:~ $ whereis mplayer
mplayer: /usr/bin/mplayer /etc/mplayer /usr/lib/mplayer /usr/bin/X11/mplayer /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/etc/mplayer /usr/local/lib/mplayer /usr/share/mplayer /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz 
jæd@erewhon:~ $ mplayer

 

[Signal 11]

Can Synaptic tell one which repository (repositories?) a package is from? Knowing linux, it must be possible to do it from the Command Line User Environment ("CLUE"). Anyone?

If you do "apt-cache showpkg PACKAGE" you'll see output like this:

Versions: 21.4a-3(/var/lib/apt/lists/rtfm:9999_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

 

[KeyboardJockey]

If you do "apt-cache showpkg PACKAGE" you'll see output like this:

Versions: 21.4a-3(/var/lib/apt/lists/rtfm:9999_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

Right that gives me the following:

sudo apt-cache showpkg vlc
Package: vlc
Versions:
0.7.2.final-3(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_warty_universe_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

Reverse Depends:
wxvlc,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
vlc-sdl,vlc
vlc-qt,vlc
vlc-plugin-svgalib,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
vlc-plugin-sdl,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
vlc-plugin-glide,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
vlc-plugin-ggi,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
vlc-plugin-esd,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
vlc-plugin-arts,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
vlc-plugin-alsa,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
vlc-gtk,vlc
vlc-gnome,vlc
vlc-glide,vlc
vlc-ggi,vlc
vlc-esd,vlc
vlc-alsa,vlc
qvlc,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
mozilla-plugin-vlc,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
libvlc0-dev,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
kvlc,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
gvlc,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
gnome-vlc,vlc 0.7.2.final-3
Dependencies:
0.7.2.final-3 - aalib1 (2 1.2) liba52-0.7.4 (0 (null)) libc6 (2 2.3.2.ds1-4) libcdio0 (0 (null)) libdvbpsi2 (0 (null)) libdvdplay0 (0 (null)) libdvdread3 (0 (null)) libflac4 (0 (null)) libfreetype6 (2 2.1.5-1) libfribidi0 (0 (null)) libgcc1 (2 1:3.3.4-1) libid3tag0 (2 0.15.0b) liblircclient0 (0 (null)) libmad0 (2 0.15.1b) libmpeg2-4 (0 (null)) libncurses5 (2 5.4-1) libogg0 (2 1.1.0) libpng12-0 (2 1.2.5.0-4) libslp1 (0 (null)) libstdc++5 (2 1:3.3.4-1) libvorbis0a (2 1.0.1) libvorbisenc2 (2 1.0.1) libx11-6 (16 (null)) xlibs (4 4.1.0) libxext6 (16 (null)) xlibs (4 4.1.0) libxml2 (2 2.6.10) libxosd2 (2 2.2.0) libxv1 (0 (null)) slang1 (4 1.4.9dbs-2) zlib1g (2 1:1.2.1) wxvlc (0 (null)) ttf-freefont (0 (null)) ttf-thryomanes (0 (null)) vlc-plugin-dvb (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-xosd (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-dv (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-mad (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-mad (3 0.5.0) vlc-plugin-a52 (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-ogg (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-lirc (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-lirc (3 0.5.0) vlc-plugin-aa (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-aa (3 0.5.0) vlc-plugin-dvb (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-xosd (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-dv (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-mad (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-mad (3 0.5.0) vlc-plugin-a52 (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-ogg (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-plugin-lirc (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-lirc (3 0.5.0) vlc-plugin-aa (3 0.5.2-2) vlc-aa (3 0.5.0)
Provides:
0.7.2.final-3 - mp3-decoder
Reverse Provides:


What do I do now??

 

[Signal 11]

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcurl2_7.12.0.is.7.11.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt', which is also in package libcurl3
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Looks like a broken package...
*googles*
click

fixed in curl 7.12.0.rel-2

Edit - actually looks like it was fixed in debian but not in ubuntu.

 

[Signal 11]

Going whereis mplayer give me

myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo whereis mplayer
Password:
mplayer: /usr/bin/mplayer /etc/mplayer /usr/lib/mplayer /usr/share/mplayer /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz
myrealname@ubuntu:~$

which is different fromwhat you've got.

That looks alright though. Does it work if you run "mplayer FILENAME"? If not what does it say?

 

[KeyboardJockey]

A friend of mine on the phone suggested an vlc media update to tryto sort things out and I got this:

myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
Password:
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com warty Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty Release
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe Packages
Fetched 2B in 3s (1B/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo wget deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
--21:34:52-- http://deb/
=> `index.html'
Resolving deb... failed: Host not found.
--21:34:52-- http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian
=> `debian'
Resolving download.videolan.org... 138.195.130.74
Connecting to download.videolan.org[138.195.130.74]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian/ [following]
--21:34:53-- http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian/
=> `index.html'
Connecting to download.videolan.org[138.195.130.74]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,315 [text/html]

100%[====================================>] 1,315 --.--K/s

21:34:53 (165.36 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [1315/1315]

--21:34:53-- http://sarge/
=> `index.html.1'
Resolving sarge... failed: Host not found.
--21:34:53-- http://main/
=> `index.html.1'
Resolving main... failed: Host not found.

FINISHED --21:34:53--
Downloaded: 1,315 bytes in 1 files
myrealname@ubuntu:~$ deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main

 

[KeyboardJockey]

That looks alright though. Does it work if you run "mplayer FILENAME"? If not what does it say?

Right that gives me:

myrealname@ubuntu:~$ sudo mplayer FILENAME
Password:
MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron Spitfire 804.8 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/marc/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/marc/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/marc/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
font: can't open file: /home/marc/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /home/marc/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing FILENAME.
File not found: 'FILENAME'
Failed to open FILENAME


Exiting... (End of file)

 

[Signal 11]

To replace the vlc file you deleted, I would do "apt-get remove vlc; apt-get install vlc". (iirc to get a root shell in ubuntu you can do "sudo su -", then you won't have to run sudo for each command. You shouldn't need to use sudo for mplayer either.)

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Looks like a broken package...
*googles*
click

Edit - actually looks like it was fixed in debian but not in ubuntu.

I've had a look at that site It certainly does look like a broken package. Went into SPM and selected Fix Broken and am going to log out and in again to see what happens.

 

[Signal 11]

File not found: 'FILENAME'

Ok, now give it the name of an audio or video file - the other file not found messages are ok, they are all optional config files.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Ok, now give it the name of an audio or video file - the other file not found messages are ok, they are all optional config files.

So a movie file not a program? Y/N

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Tried that bugger all just 'syntax error' I cut and pasted the file name of the movie file including the .mpg extension and still nothing.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Rant Alert - This is so bleeding frustrating. The main reason for changing to Linux was better security and the recomendations of other linux users.

It shouldn't take a bloody week to load on one arsing program.

I'm tempted to take off my files and reinstall Ubuntu 5.04 from disc.

I've been spending two hours plus each night for a week and still only does 30% of what I want it to do. I'm getting sorely tempted to wipe linux off totally and go back to Windows. But I don't want this to beat me.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

I'm going to try a total Ubuntu update. See if that makes a difference.

Well just tried that and that was a total waste of time I got:

W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu13_i386.deb
Bad header line


W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu13_all.deb
Bad header line


W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu13_i386.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-i686_2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu13_i386.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-4.0/libgcc1_4.0-0pre6ubuntu7_i386.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xorg-common_6.8.2-10_all.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xlibs-data_6.8.2-10_all.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/libx11-6_6.8.2-10_i386.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/libice6_6.8.2-10_i386.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/libsm6_6.8.2-10_i386.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/libxext6_6.8.2-10_i386.deb



W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/libxi6_6.8.2-10_i386.deb

 

[Signal 11]

Tried that bugger all just 'syntax error' I cut and pasted the file name of the movie file including the .mpg extension and still nothing.

I don't know where the 'syntax error' message would have come from. If the file is in the current directory (i.e. is shown when you type "ls") then you should be able to run "mplayer file.mpg". If it's not you can either cd to the directory first (same syntax as in windows "command prompt") or pass the whole path to mplayer: "mplayer /tmp/file.mpg". If you can see the video file in the file manager, you might be able to right click and "open with..." then navigate to /usr/bin/mplayer, but it's better to run it from the command line so you can see the error messages, at least until you know it's working.

 

[Signal 11]

W: Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu13_i386.deb
Bad header line

I tried a few of them and could download them.