Need HELP with Debian Mplayer

[astrophysicist]

Members, I need help with mplayer. The mplayer wesbite won't load up and I would like to get the free player. I tried aptitude, and searched for it, but it didn't give me the actual mplayer, it gave me xmms-mplayer which requires mplayer. Also I still need help with my LinEAK forum, trying to configure my dell multimedia buttons to work with Debian. Thanks.

- Astrophysicist

[jens]

With Apt:
first do:

apt-cache showpkg mplayer

Pick your version and install it with the version number.
(like apt-get install mplayer-k7 )

From source:
Their site seems down indeed but you can still use a mirror site:
http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

[astrophysicist]

HEre is what my terminal window said

apt-cache showpkg mplayer
Package: mplayer
Versions:

Reverse Depends:
xmms-xmmplayer,mplayer
mozilla-mplayer,mplayer 0.92
Dependencies:
Provides:
Reverse Provides:

apt-get install xmms-xmmplayer
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:
xmms-xmmplayer: Depends: mplayer but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

[alain_]

replace showpkg with search

[astrophysicist]

apt-cache search mplayer
mga-vid-source - Kernel driver for the back-end scaler on Matrox cards (source)
mozilla-mplayer - MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla, Konqueror and OpenOffice.org
xmms-xmmplayer - XMMS plugin that uses MPlayer to play video files

I still can't get it.

[alain_]

From source:
Their site seems down indeed but you can still use a mirror site:
http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

read this and scroll down:
http://hpisi.nerim.net/

[jens]

My /etc/apt/sources.list:

# deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb http://ftp.debian.skynet.be/ftp/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.skynet.be/ftp/debian/ stable main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ stable nvidia-graphics-drivers dpatch
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ stable nvidia-kernel-common xfree86

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main

So if you're using Sarge, add:

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main