Bug#638000: Unable to install ffmpeg

Amandeep Singh newtodisworld at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 12:23:32 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 13:56 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, It worked. I remember installing something from
debian-multimedia.org, as I was not able to play certain file. But I
didn't remove them later.

Thanks for help,
Amandeep






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