Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

[Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:47 AM, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> If I remember my timeline of events correctly, this is because there was
> no ffmpeg package in jessie; the libav fork was present in its place. (I
> thought libav had still been providing a ffmpeg dummy package, but I may
> be remembering wrong.)
>
> When ffmpeg itself was packaged for Debian again, apparently it didn't
> make it in in time to be included in the jessie release, but it did get
> added to stretch after jessie was released. (If I remember and interpret
> matters correctly, libav has been removed from stretch.)
>
> If you want the jessie-era libav* packages, try installing libav-tools
> instead of ffmpeg. You won't get exactly the same commands or
> functionality, but most of it should be similar enough for many purposes.


OK, it looks like I stepped into a truly crazy one today...

Thanks for the info!