Multimedia :: Xine/Mplayer and unresolved dependancies

heh, back to pulling my hair out I guess!

Anyway, I was trying to get xine/mplayer (or anything!) installed on my newly DSL'd Laptop - as I basically want to use it for watching dvd-rips on the train (long story..)
Having done a hard-drive install and then done the GNU-Utils install & Apt install, as well as the codecs .dsl from the repo's I tried the following:

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root@box# apt-get install xine-gui

Only to be greeted with a whole heap of dependancies, which were refusing to install, thus:

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root@box:/home/dsl# apt-get install xine-ui
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:
xine-ui: Depends: libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.15.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0) but 2.2.1-3 is to be installed
Depends: libice6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libsm6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libx11-6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxext6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxine1 (>= 1.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxtst6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxv1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxxf86vm1 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I was wondering partially what this meant, IE do I need to install all those, or should I be trying to install xine some other way?

Many thanks, Tim

Sorted it..
I re-read the output and then realised I had set the unstable release in my /etc/apt/souces.list - a quick nano later and I re-set the apt sources to stable.. apt-get-install xine-ui as before et voila!

Sorry - perhaps I should read/think slightly harder before I post!

Tim

You could've saved some time by using myDSL's various mplayer and xine packages... :P

So I've now learnt!
Neither of them work though, which-ever way I install.. Not sure if this is due to my hardware (eminantly possible - this laptop is a good 6+ years old) or merely due to lacking codecs. I'll keep trying though as they (one or the other) are effectivly all I want to use the laptop for. To be fair, I'd do a windows install if I had a 98 disk lurking about, but I've always wanted to give Linux a proper go and DSL is thus-far the best I've come across.

Tim

Which ones don't work? Both myDSL's mplayer and xine work out of the box, though I regularly use mplayer for video hardware acceleration with the xv output plugin via the XFree86.dsl package - and this is on 8+ year old hardware.

Though I'm not sure, perhaps the installation of your xine from apt is conflicting somehow...
but as long as something is working the way you like it, its all good

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