Installing .deb packages using gdebi

[moraccomoo]

Hi i'm a real newbie to debian..

i tried to install a .deb package for mplayer. i had the following probs wen doin so:
1. when i tried to install base package for mplayer using gdebi, i got a dependency error saying that mplayer-skin is not installed.
2. so wen i tried to install mplayer-skin, i got the error as "mplayer-base package not installed"

this is some kinda deadlock situation. how will i resolve this dependency issue?

while installing .rpm packages,i came to know that there are options to ignore dependencies if we desire to.. is there anything similar in case of .deb packages?

kindly clarify.. plzz

thanks in advance
moraccomoo

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

You should install packages using Package Manager apt-get. It takes care of dependencies.

su
apt-get install mplayer

Did you try vlc player? it supports all Media Formats.

su
apt-get install vlc

[machiner]

gdebi will take care of dependancies, but you must have the correct repos in your sources.list

the package <b>mplayer-skin-blue</b> is part of Debian's main repository.

Here are the results of apt-cache search mplayer. I do not have contrib or non-free enabled on my server, where I did the search.

Thu Jul 26, 13:43 # apt-cache search mplayer
gaupol - subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files
kerry - Beagle desktop search daemon frontend for KDE
kmplayer - media player for KDE
kmplayer-common - common files for kmplayer
kmplayer-plugin - kmplayer plugin for khtml/konqueror
ksubtile - subtitle editor for KDE
mga-vid-source - Kernel driver for the back-end scaler on Matrox cards (source)
mimms - MMS (e.g. mms://) stream downloader
mozilla-mplayer - MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
mplayer-skin-blue - blue skin for mplayer
pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server
python-templayer - layered template library for Python
tea - text editor with syntax highlighting & UTF support
xmms-kde - MP3 player integrated into the KDE panel
mplayer - The Movie Player
mplayer-doc - documentation for MPlayer


If you are looking for a more recent version of mplayer than the one included with Etch, then you should be compiling. If the mplayer site has repos for this new version you should add them to your sources.list before trying to install any <b>.deb</b> package you may have downloaded there.

Most folks are pretty happy with the version that comes with Etch.

apt-get install mplayer

is all you need to do.

[moraccomoo]

Thanks everyone for the prompt support ..
i'm getting familiar with the system day by day