[SOLVED]Cant install ffmpeg

[hairybiker]

Using the testing resources:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport
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

As suggested by zerozero in another post.

I am trying to install ffmpeg to re-encode some flv's.
But I get:-
Depends on libavdevices53 but it isn't going to be installed.
& if I try and install libavdevice53
Depends on libasound2 (>1.024.1)

Any way round this?

[proxima_centauri]

Are you using the latest respin 201109?

[hairybiker]

No I installed it from the 201108 iso, it is fully upto date as far as Mint Update is concerned anyway. (Sp 2 installed)

[Gerd50]

I think you'll have to wait for update pack 3 or if you don't want to wait, change the latest testing source to testing.

[hairybiker]

Hmm this LMDE for a supposedly stable base (Debian) seems lacking in a lot of things. I don't have much installed in it apart from the base install (sabnzbd and get-iplayer are about it) so I was looking forward to having it continue to run without too much intervention, but if I can't even get a "normal" package like ffmpeg to install ...
I may just reformat back to Mint 11 which was stable on that machine.

[Gerd50]

You are right, the situation is not optimal at the moment. But it's only a question of hours or a few days until the new
update system should work better.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=81449

I wrote about how to handle the sources.list here

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=79533

Once understood it's not too hard to handle

[hairybiker]

So let me get this straight, the update of the existing iso's is broken?
Should I d/l the release image and install that over the current one? (Bit of a pain if I have to do that as this system doesn't have a separate /home, due to being on a small SSD) I can do it by backing the /home up and restoring the "missing" config files.

I missed your post on the "bug" in the repositories yesterday, and was unaware that the "final" iso had been released (yesterday again)

[zerozero]

the update though multimedia or security is broken, yes, but you don't need to d/l a new iso to fix the issue, as soon as up3 comes out will be a matter of tune up your sources.list and you'll be fine to go

[hairybiker]

Ok have removed the "offending" repo's and will wait for UP3 and see if I can install ffmeg then, if not then Mint 11 Main edition is getting re-installed.

[bwat47]

I had a similar issue. I switched to the "incoming" repos so I could test update pack 3 early, updated, removed the packages that were complaining about dependencies, and then installed them all, including ffmpeg and it seems to work fine now.

Update pack 3 should be hitting latest soon I'd imagine.

[craigevil]

Or just add a Debian Testing line to your sources.list rather than the lmde update repo.

[MasterPassion]

Similar problems, trying to install ffmpeg 0.8.2 . But it tells that I should install some older libs:

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7)      gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg [1:0.10.11-4.1 (now) -> 0.10.11-4 (testing)] 
8)      libavcodec52 [5:0.6.3-0.0 (now) -> 4:0.6.2-3 (testing)]           
9)      libavformat52 [5:0.6.3-0.0 (now) -> 4:0.6.2-3 (testing)]          
10)     libavutil50 [5:0.6.3-0.0 (now) -> 4:0.6.2-3 (testing)]            
11)     libpostproc51 [5:0.8.2-0.1 (now, testing) -> 4:0.6.2-3 (testing)] 
12)     libswscale0 [5:0.6.3+git20110613-0.1 (now) -> 4:0.6.2-3 (testing)]

What's about those update pack or what? Should I try to get some headache with deps and install ffmpeg or will it be better to wait?

P. S. My English is very bad, sorry.

[hairybiker]

I added the testing repo's and it installed.
BUT I have given up on it as being to user unfriendly at the moment and gone back to "normal" Mint 11.

[MasterPassion]

All is OK now. There was a big update today (over 400MBytes), after it I successfully installed ffmpeg.