Bug#638000: Unable to install ffmpeg

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 17.08.2011 13:49, schrieb Amandeep Singh:
> $ apt-cache policy libavcodec52
> libavcodec52:
>    Installed: 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2
>    Candidate: 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2
>    Version table:
>   *** 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 0
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>       4:0.5.2-6 0
>          500 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages
> $
>
> Does that mean libavcodec52 is too recent, or something else?

No, this means you have manually installed the crap packages from 
debian-multimedia.org which now run havoc and prevent installation of 
other packages. Take my advise and remove these packages ASAP.