-------------------------------------------- On Fri, 8/15/14, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu <david...@ling.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
Subject: Re: Problem with Debian 6 LTS and vlc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, August 15, 2014, 3:54 PM On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Go Linux wrote: > -------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 8/13/14, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > > > > Is vlc no longer installable, on Debian 6? > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > I have vlc running on squeeze LTS. Looks like it comes from Debian > multimedia packages maintainers > <pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> so you'll > likely have to add the http://www.deb-multimedia.org oldstable main > repo to your sources list. FYI: "There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and 'deb-multimedia.org'. So what's the difference?" https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ#There_is_.27Debian_Multimedia_Maintainers.27_and_.27deb-multimedia.org.27._So_what.27s_the_difference.3F deb-multimedia.org is unrelated to the debian multimedia packaging team. ------------------------------------------------------- This description comes from the properties option in synaptic: "Debian multimedia packages maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>" But when I just checked from the source option it says it was installed from: "oldstable/main (http.debian.net)" It has the official Debian logo on the vlc entries so it must be still be in oldstable now. IIRC it was about this time that multimedia was no longer being maintained and supported by Debian and moved over to a third party repo. Section 2.5 on the page you posted above has a thorough explanation starting with this: 2.5. There is 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' and 'deb-multimedia.org'. So what's the difference? 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is the team behind the packaging of multimedia related packages distributed with Debian. In other words, 'Debian Multimedia Maintainers' is us. 'deb-multimedia.org' (aka 'dmo' or 'd-m.o', formerly 'debian-multimedia.org') is a site that offers a repository of multimedia packages as well. That site is maintained by an individual that is not part of this team. If you continue reading down that page the transitions and differences are clearly described. As an alternative, you might try the version in the Mepis community repo for squeeze. The media packages that Steve Pusser builds have always been compatible with my system. He's a real wizard! golinux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1408138552.6525.yahoomailba...@web163404.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
