Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

[Leo Spalteholz <leo@thewoodpecker.ca>]

On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote:
> sean finney wrote:
> > i don't think mplayer has ever officially been in the debian
> > distro. i think it was either depending on non-free code or
> > proprietary codecs that technically made binary redistribution
> > illegal.  i'm not sure if this is even true anymore (i hear it's
> > now completely GPL too), but i don't think it's yet made its way
> > into debian in any case.  *however*, mplayer ships with a
> > ./debian directory, letting debian users create their own debs
> > from the latest cvs source, and i think there are a few pre-made
> > debs on the net as well.
>
> you can add
>
> deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main
>
> to /etc/apt/sources.list
> and do
>
> # apt-get install mplayer

I've never gotten this to work.. In my sources I have:
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main

but apt-get install mplayer returns
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package mplayer

any ideas?

thanks,
leo