Bug#717112: libreoffice: Insert Movie and Sound, and Media Player not working

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 01:16:41AM +0200, Raphael Wimmer wrote:
[...]
> Therefore, I resorted to removing package gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
> which contains 'eglglessink'.
> 
> Video playback in LibreOffice worked afterwards.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this?

Will try, but it's a hackaround at it's best, especially as removing this
doesn't work in some cases ...

(sid)root@frodo:/# dpkg -P gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64:
 libcheese7:amd64 depends on gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad.
 libfarstream-0.2-2:amd64 depends on gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad.

dpkg: error processing gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64 (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64
(sid)root@frodo:/# dpkg -P gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad libcheese7 libfarstream-0.2-2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libcheese7:amd64:
 gnome-control-center depends on libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1).
 libcheese-gtk23:amd64 depends on libcheese7 (>= 3.4.0).
 gnome-contacts depends on libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1).

dpkg: error processing libcheese7:amd64 (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libfarstream-0.2-2:amd64:
 libtelepathy-farstream3:amd64 depends on libfarstream-0.2-2 (>= 0.1.91).
 empathy depends on libfarstream-0.2-2 (>= 0.1.91).

dpkg: error processing libfarstream-0.2-2:amd64 (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64:
 libcheese7:amd64 depends on gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad.
 libfarstream-0.2-2:amd64 depends on gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad.

dpkg: error processing gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64 (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libcheese7:amd64
 libfarstream-0.2-2:amd64
 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64

... unless you want to live without gnome-contacts or empathy...
Or even worse: gnome-control-center...

Regards,

Rene