Tnx for all the great responses. I think in the long run
(maybe over winter break?) I will move to a pure Debian/unstable
environment. I used Knoppix as a jumping point into Debian
and wasn't planning on using it permanently.
~Deepak
On Dec 16 2003, at 22:25, Deepak Saxena was caught saying:
>
> 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#
>
>
>
> --
> Deepak Saxena - dsaxena@plexity.net
>
> # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
> # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
> # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
>
> #
> # xmission mirror (Utah, fast)
> #
> deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://mirrors.xmission.com/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>
> #
> # Debian US
> #
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> #
> # Mplayer
> #
> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
> #
> # VLC
> #
> deb ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian i386/
> #
> # Source
> #
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> #deb-src http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
> #
> # Security
> #
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
>
> # Experimental
> # deb http://debian.uni-essen.de/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
> # deb-src http://debian.uni-essen.de/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
>
> # Mozilla
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./
>
> # GNOME 2.0
> # deb http://www.gnome.de/debian/ ./
>
> # KDE 3
> # deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main
> # deb-src http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main
> # We get packages from testing/unstable for now
>
> # cdbakeoven
> # deb http://coyote.asoc.euitt.upm.es/mud/debian/ ./
>
> # XFree 4.2/4.3
> deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages sid/i386/
> deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages sid/source/
> deb http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./
> deb-src http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/source ./
>
> # Java
> deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free
> deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free
> deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free
> # deb http://people.debian.org/~sgybas/jdk13
>
> # LyX & others (now in debian/unstable)
> # deb ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/
> # deb-src ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/
>
> # Evolution
> #deb ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/debian stable main
> #deb-src ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/debian stable main
>
> # Blades Repository (pppoeconf & co)
> deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./
> deb-src http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./
>
> # DRI
> deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ ./
>
>
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
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Deepak Saxena -
dsaxena@plexity.net
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