Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

2015-12-19 Thread Kynn Jones
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:47 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > If I remember my timeline of events correctly, this is because there was > no ffmpeg package in jessie; the libav fork was present in its place. (I > thought libav had still been providing a ffmpeg dummy package, but I may > be remembering wr

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

2015-12-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-19 at 11:38, Kynn Jones wrote: > An additional detail I noticed after I posted the message above: > > % apt-cache policy ffmpeg > ffmpeg: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 7:2.8.3-1 > Version table: > 7:2.8.3-1 0 > 500 http://http.us.debian

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

2015-12-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Kynn Jones a écrit : > > I don't understand why the ffmpeg version from stretch comes out as > the best (and only remaining) candidate. > > How can I find out why the ffmpeg version from jessie (whatever that > is) is not a candidate? It appears that there is no ffmpeg package in Jessie.

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

2015-12-19 Thread Kynn Jones
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: > I apologize for all these apt-related questions. > > I have rtfm'd on this ad nauseam. For years, literally. > > Still, I'm routinely rendered utterly helpless by this sort of thing: > > % sudo apt-get -qq update > % sudo apt-get -qq u

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

2015-12-19 Thread Kynn Jones
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:00 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > Assuming you don't actually have any package holds (check 'apt-mark > showhold' to verify that), and since you've already confirmed that you > don't have any seemingly-applicable pins: > > Append one or more of the listed packages to the 'apt

Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

2015-12-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-19 at 10:24, Kynn Jones wrote: > I apologize for all these apt-related questions. > > I have rtfm'd on this ad nauseam. For years, literally. > > Still, I'm routinely rendered utterly helpless by this sort of thing: > > % sudo apt-get -qq update > % sudo apt-get -qq upgrade

How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

2015-12-19 Thread Kynn Jones
I apologize for all these apt-related questions. I have rtfm'd on this ad nauseam. For years, literally. Still, I'm routinely rendered utterly helpless by this sort of thing: % sudo apt-get -qq update % sudo apt-get -qq upgrade % sudo apt-get -qq dist-upgrade % sudo apt-get inst