Am 09.07.21 um 21:37 schrieb Brian:
yes I know, however I am running a rather old machine (TX 100 S1 from Fujitsu) and already tried to install Debian 10 which made my mouse-pointer awfully slow and "jumpy" ... therefore I stay with Debian 9 - however I try moving with the Debian 10 - trial-disk - but at a later time in August ...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.
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