On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:05:49AM -0400, BTP wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been running mostly stable versions of software on my Debian system,
> and when I decided to do an
> apt-get install gxine
> I had to upgrade mozilla and install some other packages.
> (apt-get output is included below.)
>
> My question is, if I want to undo what I have done, what would be the best
> course of action?
> I already did (apt-get --purge remove gxine) and that really didn't undo all
> the other package mangling.
> If I do (apt-get --purge remove [all additional packages that were forced to
> install]) then I get all kinds of unpredictable
> package mangling.
>
> Is it even worth dealing with this apt-get package management? Seems like I
> could get more control with just source installs. Also on the gxine web page
> I did not find any quick solution to adding plugins when going with the
> debian package route.
>
> I don't really care about fixing these issues as much as I care about
> knowing the best way to install a media player that will work with the most
> amount of supported video formats out there.
>
> If anyone could throw any advice my way it would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hi,
for good coverage of video formats just add
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
to /etc/apt/sources.list
and do
apt-get update
apt-get install mplayer-586 w32codecs
>
> =====================================
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libnspr4 libnss3 libsmjs1 libxaw8 mozilla-browser mozilla-psm
>
> Suggested packages:
> realplayer libdvdcss2 libdvdcss xprt latex-xft-fonts
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> gxine libsmjs1 libxaw8
>
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> libnspr4 libnss3 mozilla-browser mozilla-psm
>
> 4 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 812 not upgraded.
> Need to get 11.2MB of archives.
> After unpacking 519kB disk space will be freed.
> =====================================
Hth
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