installing new sw on Ubuntu Breezy

[riccardo ferraro]

I have installed 5.10 on my notebook Toshiba A80.
It works well,I have installed mplayer and mplayerplug-in from
source after setting up some dependencies, with no problems.
On the other end, I have problems installing other packages,
even with apt or dpkg.
Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386
(20051012)]/ breezy main restricted
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-updates main restricted
deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-updates main restricted
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy universe
deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy universe
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-security main restricted
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-security main restricted
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-security universe
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-security universe
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy multiverse
deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy multiverse
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-backports main restricted
universe multiverse

Examples of problems:

apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package libfontconfig1-dev is not available, but is referred
to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted,
or is only available from another source
E: Package libfontconfig1-dev has no installation candidate

apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libgtk2.0-dev is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libcairo2-dev: Depends: libfontconfig1-dev but it is not installable
Depends: libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.1.0) but it is not
installable
(......................)

By the way I cannot understand what it means when it says that a
package "is not installable". Can you help please ? Thanks a lot.

[Conor]

In article <pan.2005.12.01.11.40.16.152727@fastwebnet.it>, riccardo
ferraro says...

> I have installed 5.10 on my notebook Toshiba A80.
> It works well,I have installed mplayer and mplayerplug-in from
> source after setting up some dependencies, with no problems.
> On the other end, I have problems installing other packages,
> even with apt or dpkg.
> Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list:
>

Take a look at this forum, there's a program someone has made to make
installing the "essentials" a point and click:

[url]http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=84742[/url]

Make use of the forums at ubuntuforums.org - there's a wealth of info
there.


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Conor

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[SINNER]

* riccardo ferraro wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

> I have installed 5.10 on my notebook Toshiba A80.
> It works well,I have installed mplayer and mplayerplug-in from
> source after setting up some dependencies,

Why would you use the source? They are in the repositories.

>with no problems.
> On the other end, I have problems installing other packages,
> even with apt or dpkg.
> Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list:

> deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386
> (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted
> deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-updates main restricted
> deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-updates main restricted
> deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy universe
> deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy universe
> deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-security main restricted
> deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-security main restricted
> deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-security universe
> deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-security universe
> deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy multiverse
> deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy multiverse
> deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] breezy-backports main restricted
> universe multiverse

> Examples of problems:

> apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package libfontconfig1-dev is not available, but is referred
> to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted,
> or is only available from another source
> E: Package libfontconfig1-dev has no installation candidate

This means that some other package requires it but the repository does
not have it, try doing a search

sinner@gates-of-hell:~$ aptitude search libfontconfig
E: /home/sinner/.aptitude/config - Unable to open %s for writing (13 Permission denied)
v libfontconfig-dev -
i libfontconfig1 - generic font configuration library (shared library)
p libfontconfig1-dbg - generic font configuration library (debugging symbols)
p libfontconfig1-dev - generic font configuration library (development headers)

My guess here is that youve done a source based install that has messed
with other dependencies, have you tried uninstalling mplayer and the
plugins and tried to reinstall using apt-get/aptitude?

[...]

--
David
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[Toby Newman]

On 2005-12-01, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:

> * riccardo ferraro wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

>> I have installed 5.10 on my notebook Toshiba A80.
>> It works well,I have installed mplayer and mplayerplug-in from
>> source after setting up some dependencies,

>
> Why would you use the source? They are in the repositories.

The only way to get it optimised for your hardware is to compile the
source. From the repository, you get a lowest-common-denominator
version.

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[SINNER]

* Toby Newman wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

> On 2005-12-01, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:

>> * riccardo ferraro wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

>>> I have installed 5.10 on my notebook Toshiba A80.
>>> It works well,I have installed mplayer and mplayerplug-in from
>>> source after setting up some dependencies,

>>
>> Why would you use the source? They are in the repositories.

>
> The only way to get it optimised for your hardware is to compile the
> source. From the repository, you get a lowest-common-denominator
> version.
>

DL the source for your distro and compile it. DL'ing the source from the
project page/home page creates OTHER issues that will likely be harder to
resolve.

--
David

[Toby Newman]

On 2005-12-14, SINNER <arcade.master@gmail.com> wrote:

> * Toby Newman wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
>

>> On 2005-12-01, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:

>>> * riccardo ferraro wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
>>>> I have installed 5.10 on my notebook Toshiba A80.
>>>> It works well,I have installed mplayer and mplayerplug-in from
>>>> source after setting up some dependencies,
>>>
>>> Why would you use the source? They are in the repositories.

>>
>> The only way to get it optimised for your hardware is to compile the
>> source. From the repository, you get a lowest-common-denominator
>> version.
>>

>
> DL the source for your distro and compile it. DL'ing the source from the
> project page/home page creates OTHER issues that will likely be harder to
> resolve.
>

I installed mplayer from source using sources from their website this
week. I didn't expect it to work, but it did, very well. Kubuntu.

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