<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>  <TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign="top"> <DIV align="left"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">There are some 'extra' packages for debian at <a href="http://gda.utp.edu.co/pub/debian/">http://gda.utp.edu.co/pub/debian/</a> which have mplayer. I wouldn't recommend them but managed to get mplayer working using apt and without any compiling using them.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>>> Markus Kolb <ubuntu-ml@tower-net.de> 09/27/04 07:48pm >>></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">On 27.09.2004 15:44, Torsten Curdt wrote:</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> There should be no Debian repositories in sources.list because of </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> version mismatch.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> A debian package could have a newer version number and so apt will </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> update your Ubuntu package with the one from Debian and break things </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> with other packages from Ubuntu.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> So maybe it works, maybe you can break your system.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> You have to know what you do.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> On the other side if you have problems with such a mixed system you </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> have no chance to get bug-support by Ubuntu and Debian. Both sides </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> will tell you that you should not install a mixed system.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>> What do you need from Debian which is not in Ubuntu?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">> Well, for some things you *have* to do it currently AFAIK</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">> ...mplayer e.g.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">That's not an Debian repository.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">And you need not to add the marillat repository to sources.list. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Download the needed packages and install them with dpkg -i ...</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">cu</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-- </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ubuntu-users mailing list</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">For more information please visit <a href="http://www.messagelabs.com/email">http://www.messagelabs.com/email</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div> </div> <BR> ______________________________________________________________________<BR> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. 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