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hi I cannot install mplayer-586 on my debian sarge stable: Code: debian:~# apt-get install mplayer-586 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This ...
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    cannot install mplayer-586 on sarge stable

    hi

    I cannot install mplayer-586 on my debian sarge stable:
    Code:
    debian:~# apt-get install mplayer-586
    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-586: Depends: mplayer
    E: Broken packages
    Code:
    debian:~# dpkg -P --force-all mplayer
    dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove mplayer which isn't installed.
    debian:~# dpkg -P --force-all mplayer-586
    dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove mplayer-586 which isn't installed.
    update && upgrade doesn't help !
    what's wrong and howto solve thie problem ?

    my sources.list
    Code:
    # sources.list generated by apt-spy v3.1
    deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
    deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
    
    #mplayer
    deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ stable main

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    does installing just mplayer tell you to pick between 586, k7, etc...?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vergil83
    does installing just mplayer tell you to pick between 586, k7, etc...?
    sorry, but I don't understand what you mean ?
    could you pls give some more details ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cc
    sorry, but I don't understand what you mean ?
    could you pls give some more details ?
    I think Vergil83 is telling you to try installing mplayer by itself.
    apt-get install mplayer

    let it find the dependancies for you and so forth.
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    what MikeTbob said. If you just installed mplayer by itself, it used to tell you to pick between 386, 586, k7, etc...
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