Re: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, davidson@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Go Linux wrote:
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On Wed, 8/13/14, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Is vlc no longer installable, on Debian 6?
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I have vlc running on squeeze LTS. Looks like it comes from Debian
multimedia packages maintainers
<pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> so you'll
likely have to add the http://www.deb-multimedia.org oldstable main
repo to your sources list.
FYI:
"There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and 'deb-multimedia.org'. So
what's the difference?"
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#There_is_.27Debian_Multimedia_Maintainers.27_and_.27deb-multimedia.org.27._So_what.27s_the_difference.3F
just for the record, to sidestep eventual link-rot:
from DebianMultimedia/FAQ - Debian Wiki
<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#There_is_.27Debian_Multimedia_Maintainers.27_and_.27deb-multimedia.org.27._So_what.27s_the_difference.3F>
| 2.5. There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and
| 'deb-multimedia.org'. So what's the difference?
| 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is the team behind the packaging
| of multimedia related packages distributed with Debian. In other
| words, 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is us.
| 'deb-multimedia.org' (aka 'dmo' or 'd-m.o', formerly
| 'debian-multimedia.org') is a site that offers a repository of
| multimedia packages as well. That site is maintained by an
| individual that is not part of this team.
| 2.5.1. freedom
| A key difference between the 'deb-multimedia.org' and our team is
| that we strive to maintain packages that are considered DFSG free
| or get them to a state where they become DFSG free. Moreover, we
| aim at proper integration of programs into the Debian system. In
| contrast to official Debian packages, many packages from
| 'deb-multimedia.org' are licensed under non-free terms that limit
| their use and are not freely redistributable.
| 2.5.2. versioning
| To distinguish between our official packages and packages from
| d-m.o, d-m.o adds an 'epoch' to the version number and uses a
| specific revision counter. This means that once you installed a
| version from d-m.o, package management software will always
| consider that version newer than the official package - even when
| the official package is in actual fact a newer version (but
| without the epoch).
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