Check mplayer's website...i personally compiled it by hand (recommended
by the mplayer team)...but they do have debian sources listed somewhere
there...they also list a debian package that integrates mplayer with
your browser! Now that, is awesome!

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 22:25, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> I still have not mastered this whole apt-get process and am trying to 
> figure out what to do at this point. I'm running knoppix 3.2 with 
> a customized sources file (attached) and trying to install mplayer
> and I get the following. The problem seems pretty simple...I need
> to update to newer versions of the libraries. The question is,
> how do I do this, and how do I do it in such a way that it does
> not break any other app that depends on these libraries?
> 
> Tnx,
> ~Deepak
> 
> omelas:/home/dsaxena# apt-get install mplayer-k7
> 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:
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   mplayer-k7: Depends: libasound2 (> 0.9.8) but 0.9.3-2 is to be
> installed
>               Depends: libogg0 (>= 1.1.0) but 1.0.0-1 is to be installed
>               Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) but 1:1.1.4-16 is to be
> installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> omelas:/home/dsaxena# apt-get install libasound2
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, libasound2 is already the newest version.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 756  not
> upgraded.
> omelas:/home/dsaxena# apt-get install libogg0
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, libogg0 is already the newest version.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 756  not
> upgraded.
> omelas:/home/dsaxena# apt-get install zlib1g
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, zlib1g is already the newest version.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 756  not
> upgraded.
> omelas:/home/dsaxena#
> 
>