Re: Debian-Multimedia

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 02:06:52PM +0100, Stuckey wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> So I've edited /etc/apt/preferences such:
> stuckey@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: origin www.debian-multimedia.org
> Pin-Priority: 200
> 
> And now, when I do "apt-cache policy mplayer" I get:
> 
> debian:/home/stuckey# apt-cache policy mplayer
> mplayer:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1+b1
>   Version table:
>      1:1.0.rc2svn20100219-0.0 0
>         200 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main Packages
>      1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1+b1 0
>         500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>      1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> I assume that means that when I just removed it, and then
> reinstalled it, that it took it from ftp.de.debian.org.
> 
> So with such a configuration, how can I tel it that I want to
> install mplayer from debian-multimedia?

apt-get install -t debian-multimedia mplayer

-- 
Chris.