Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my system - am I correct here?
On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:37:03PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 09 Jul 2021 at 15:05:20 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:41:17PM +0200, Joerg Kampmann wrote:
> > > Hello - I tried to install ffmpeg (a normal Debian package) and got some
> > > strange messages. the ffmpeg-group adviced me to go to a Debian group. I
> > > hope I am correct here in this group.
> > >
> > > I am running Debian 9 on a Fujitsu TX 100 S1 computer ...
> >
> > This is not the current stable release. You may wish to *consider*
> > upgrading, as running older releases tends to be incompatible with
> > the desire to install recent versions of web browsers, video players,
> > and other large and complicated packages.
>
> The OP says:
>
> Hello - I tried to install ffmpeg...
>
> This is on Debian 9. Either it installs or it doesn't. It did for me.
>
> Not being the current release seems neither here nor there.
We shall see.
I have a theory that they tried to add buster sources (or
buster-backports, or some third-party repository meant for buster)
because they wanted newer stuff than was available in stretch or
stretch-backports. Frankendebian ensued.
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