On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 15:57:03 (+0000), Curt wrote: > On 2018-03-20, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> Yes the package is libopenal1. I don't have the package in Stretch, > >> though ffmpeg is installed. > > > > In my ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stretch_main_binary-amd64_Packages > > (39116092 Mar 10 03:33) ffmpeg says: > > > > Package: ffmpeg > > <ffmpeg depends on libavdevice57> > > > and libavdevice57 says: > > <libavdevice27 depends on libopenal1> > > > so how do you get around not installing libopenal1? > > **Important informational note: I am not the OP, posed no > question in this thread, nor asked for any help (although I might need > some). I'm only a lowly participant.** > > I'm sorry; I've sent you on a chase in which the goose is unfortunately > wild. > > I do have libopenal1, in fact; I misread the output of "apt show libopenal1" > earlier. > > Once again, apologies.
That's OK. In the absence of anything from the OP, I thought that you might have downloaded something from backports or that multimedia archive which can get you into a mess. (In which case, you might have acted as a proxy for the OP.) Cheers, David.