Re: Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-08-12 06:19, Thomas Anderson wrote:
> > > I have the following entry in my sources.list file:
> > >
> > > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
> > >
> > > But I cannot install any package from that repository. I get this error
> > > message:
> > >
> > > # apt-get install mencoder
> > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > Building dependency tree
> > > Reading state information... Done
> > > Package mencoder is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> > > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> > > is only available from another source
> > > E: Package mencoder has no installation candidate
> > > #
> > >
> > > I get the same error message from any package I've tried to install
> > > from that repository. I've apt-get updated, and it still won't work.
> > >
> > > I've got an Intel quadcore CPU (which means I'm on the AMD64
> > > architecture, right?) and am running Debian stable (Lenny). Any
> > > suggestions as to how I can fix my problem?
> > Dumb question: did you remember to "apt-get update"?
>
> It's not a dumb question :). But, yes, I remembered to "apt-get
> update". So that wasn't the reason..

Then I'd do:

$ apt-cache policy

$ apt-cache search mencoder


(It might just be that mencoder isn't in the stable repos, though.)

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