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

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:24, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 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.)

I get this output when I do that:

todu:/home/tommy# apt-get update
Get:1 http://debian-multimedia.org lenny Release.gpg [197B]
Get:2 http://debian-multimedia.org lenny/main Translation-en_US [14B]
Hit http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny Release
Get:3 http://debian-multimedia.org lenny Release [11.5kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile Release.gpg
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib
Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free
Translation-en_US
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free
Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free
Translation-en_US
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile Release
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Get:4 http://debian-multimedia.org lenny/main Packages [69.2kB]
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib
Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free
Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib
Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free
Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib
Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free
Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib
Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free
Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free
Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/main Packages
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib Packages
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free Packages
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Sources
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib Sources
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib Packages
Hit http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources
Hit http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages
Hit http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages
Hit http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/main Sources
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
Hit http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/contrib Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Sources
Hit http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/non-free Sources
Fetched 80.9kB in 0s (95.4kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
todu:/home/tommy#

Seems ok to me. The I get this:

todu:/home/tommy# apt-cache policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
  -1 http://debian-multimedia.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
  -1 http://debian-multimedia.org lenny/main Packages
     release v=None,o=Unofficial Multimedia
Packages,a=stable,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,c=main
     origin debian-multimedia.org
  -1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
     release v=None,o=Backports.org
archive,a=lenny-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=non-free
     origin www.backports.org
  -1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib Packages
     release v=None,o=Backports.org
archive,a=lenny-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=contrib
     origin www.backports.org
  -1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
     release v=None,o=Backports.org
archive,a=lenny-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=main
     origin www.backports.org
  -1 http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/non-free Packages
     release o=volatile.debian.org,a=stable,l=debian-volatile,c=non-free
     origin volatile.debian.org
  -1 http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/contrib Packages
     release o=volatile.debian.org,a=stable,l=debian-volatile,c=contrib
     origin volatile.debian.org
  -1 http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages
     release o=volatile.debian.org,a=stable,l=debian-volatile,c=main
     origin volatile.debian.org
 500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free
     origin security.debian.org
 500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib
     origin security.debian.org
 500 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=main
     origin security.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages
     release v=5.0.2,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=non-free
     origin ftp.se.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages
     release v=5.0.2,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=contrib
     origin ftp.se.debian.org
 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org lenny/main Packages
     release v=5.0.2,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=main
     origin ftp.se.debian.org
Pinned packages:
     flashplugin-nonfree -> (not found)
todu:/home/tommy#

I've never run that command before, but it seems ok to me..?

And then this:

todu:/home/tommy# apt-cache search videotrans
videotrans - DVD authoring utilities
todu:/home/tommy#

Seems as it should be.

Then I get this:

todu:/home/tommy# apt-get install videotrans
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package videotrans 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 videotrans has no installation candidate
todu:/home/tommy#

Now that is not ok ;). Any suggestions/ideas?

-- 
Regards,

Thomas Anderson
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur"
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