Installing without recommends doesn’t work with the package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good.
alexan...@prudentia:~$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gconf2 gconf2-common libavc1394-0 libdv4 libgconf2-4 libgnome-keyring0 libidl0 libiec61883-0 liborbit2 libproxy0 libraw1394-11 libshout3 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1 Suggested packages: gconf-defaults-service libdv-bin libraw1394-doc Recommended packages: gstreamer0.10-x gnome-keyring The following NEW packages will be installed: gconf2 gconf2-common gstreamer0.10-plugins-good libavc1394-0 libdv4 libgconf2-4 libgnome-keyring0 libidl0 libiec61883-0 liborbit2 libproxy0 libraw1394-11 libshout3 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1 0 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 1,912kB/2,682kB of archives. After this operation, 15.4MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? -- phonon-backends-gstreamer requires excessive dependencies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590077 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gst-plugins-base0.10 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs