Can't install mplayer2 in lmde

[linux_rules]

While trying to install mplayer2 I get

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$ sudo apt-get install mplayer2
[sudo] password for tux: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mplayer2 : Depends: libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1) but 0.9.23-1 is to be installed
            Depends: libtinfo5 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

[zerozero]

can you please share with us the output of

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inxi -Sr

and

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apt policy mplayer2

[linux_rules]

Sorry for the late reply.

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$ inxi -Sr
System:    Host tuxpc Kernel 3.0.0-1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

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$ apt policy mplayer2
mplayer2:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:2.0~git20120128-0.0
  Version table:
     1:2.0~git20120128-0.0 0
        500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/main amd64 Packages

[Gerd50]

Read here - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=185&t=82346 -
and change your sources.list as mentioned.

[linux_rules]

Read here - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=185&t=82346 -
and change your sources.list as mentioned.

Thanks. Problem solved, installed mplayer2 but Smplayer2 which was in the repos is no longer available.

[zerozero]

i'm afraid it won't be fixed for you in the next couple weeks (until you get UP4), and why? you had before multimedia following directly debian and with this repo change that you just made multimedia is mirrored by the mint team and updated when you have a new UP, the last one was in august, the next one should be any time soon.

hope this makes sense, is not very easy to explain but if you still have any question please...

[linux_rules]

In Ubuntu I used to get updates almost on a daily basis. But in lmde I got a lot of updates when I first installed it & then a few updates when I changed the above repos. What is lmde's update policy ? Is it monthly ? I am running firefox & thunderbird slightly older.

[zerozero]

since june last year update policy changed in lmde
we are now testing UP4 in incoming and in days/weeks it should be made available in latest