Re: how to get missing multimedia packages
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:22:03PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> >Just be aware that if you strike any bugs and any dmo packages are
> >involved, it will be closed without any further ado. The deb-multimedia
> >repository is toxic to a healthy wheezy system. Take it from me,
> >I spent ages cleaning up my system when I installed a usual Debian
> >package and encountered deb-multimedia's versioning fiasco.
>
> hi Chris,
> It's striking how one can have so opposite advices! I would compare
> it to medicine, where a given drug may have good results in some cases,
> and bad or even dramatic effects in other cases. For that kind of
> drugs, it is of course generally better to avoid tham, as far as possible.
> For d-m-o, it seems that the probability of messing the whole system is
> low, but that if it occurs, reverting to a healthy system may be
> difficult. I'll then stay with official debian.
> Nevertheless, what do you think of enabling d-m-o just to get a given
> package (avidemux for example), and disabling it immediatly after?
Dunno, but check which Debian packages will be removed and replaced by
the deb-multimedia packages, and take note if you decide to go ahead.
You may strike problems later, e.g I found the Debian devede package
wouldn't work. (It would mean using dmo's devede package, and I wasn't
prepared to replace a substantial part of my system with libraries from
deb-multimedia just to get unrelated packages to work.)
It is up to you whether you enable and use the deb-multimedia repo, but
If you do you should probably leave it in and let apt-get sort it all
out, but just be aware of the ffmpeg vs libav-tools situation, and
if you find a bug, and some deb-multimedia packages are dependencies,
then don't waste time reporting it to the Debian BTS.
If you are aware of these issues and you take a proactive role in your
systen upgrades etc, you should be fine.
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