Re: how to get missing multimedia packages
On Monday 28 January 2013 15:46:49 Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> some important packages are missing in the Debian official repositories
> cinelerra, avidemux
> the offical recommendations say:
>
> Please do also consider to entirely remove unofficial third-party
> repositories from your /etc/apt/sources.list file. The few more
> features added to the packages provided there do often not compensate for
> the breakage they may cause.
>
> So, how am I supposed to get these packages. The only way I see
> is compilation, but is there any chance that they will be officially
> supported by Debian one day?
How is up to you. I use unofficial repositories and even sometimes an
unofficial installer, and have got away with it so far. Compilation from
source can also cause problems; though it has never so far happened to me.
Yes, they may one day be included, but only if they become fully open source.
Lisi
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