On 14 July 2017 at 16:35, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <
hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> "Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:"
>
> My desktop machine is running Debian Wheezy and is not connected to
> the internet, which is why it would not be easy to install silentcast
> on that.
Daniel Llewellyn said:
> If ffmpeg isn't in the 14.04 release then enabling the universe repo
> won't help
I had a feeling that might be the case.
> The way you install deb packages from file rather than a repository
> is to use dpkg directly:
>
> dpkg -i /path/to/downloaded-ffmpeg-debfile.deb
This might help but first see important notes at
https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-media
It looks like using this repo may cause other issues, but depending on what
else you have installed or might wish to install in future, it may be suitable
for you.
By the approach at
On 13 July 2017 at 17:51, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <
hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The installation was done by Dell. My web searches have revealed that
> I am not the only one with this problem. It appears that ffmpeg was
> left out of Ubuntu 14.04 for reasons unknown.
>
I
Daniel Llewellyn said:
> ?ffmpeg is in universe. This repository should be enabled by default unless
> you
> have a minimal installation provided by some vps/cloud providers.
Thank you, Daniel.
The installation was done by Dell. My web searches have revealed that
I am not the only one with this
On 12/07/17 12:03, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote:
I have been trying to install silentcast on a laptop running Ubuntu. It
depends on ffmpeg, which appears to be missing from the standard
Ubuntu repository. I compiled it from source, available at ffmpeg.org.
Silentcast still won't
On 12 July 2017 at 12:03, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <
hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
> silentcast : Depends: ffmpeg but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
I have been trying to install silentcast on a laptop running Ubuntu. It
depends on ffmpeg, which appears to be missing from the standard
Ubuntu repository. I compiled it from source, available at ffmpeg.org.
Silentcast still won't install:
pra@pra-Inspiron-15-3552:~$ sudo apt-get install
