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# FreevoAptDebian

## Freevo Apt for debian

A Debian apt source is available and includes all the dependencies you'll need.

You should add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

    deb http://freevo.sourceforge.net/debian unstable main
    deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/  unstable main

(The second source provides mplayer and other multimedia packages)

To fetch all the dependencies you'll require to run Freevo simply run

    apt-get update
    apt-get install freevo

If you are using a debian 'stable' version such as the version called 'woody', your regular /etc/apt/sources.list will be not be configured by default in such a way that allows apt-get to find all the dependencies. In particular, things such as python2.3 are not included in the 'woody' release. If you don't fear an update of your installation you could update your /etc/apt/sources.list by changing 'stable' and 'woody' into 'sarge' and rerun the two commands listed above.

If you are installing afresh, it would be wise to choose a version of Debian like 'sarge' so that your apt sources will enable apt-get to find all the dependencies for the freevo package. By the time you read this, 'sarge' may already be lifted from 'testing' to 'stable' (May 2005).

### Ubuntu: See FreevoAptUbuntu

Some hints for installing freevo on the Debian-based Ubuntu distribution can be found under FreevoAptUbuntu.

is the following now obsolete?

ERROR: Since UBUNTU install python2.4 by default and pylirc and mmpython are only for python2.3, it's not so easy to install. I'm thinking uninstalling python2.4 and install 2.3, but I'm not sure if any application that my system needs python2.4. Any suggestion? Thanks

- I've tried uninstalling python2.4 using aptitude (which removes all dependencies as well) on a scratch box; it doesn't solve the problem Trying to install freevo results in a new dependency hell:

    # aptitude install freevo
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading extended state information
    Initializing package states... Done
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
    E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
    E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
    Some packages had unmet dependencies.  This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      freevo: Depends: python (< 2.4) but 2.4.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed.
    #

- Even forcing installing it's installation (with python2.3 installed), just doesn't work either:

    # /usr/bin/freevo
    can't find python version with installed freevo

last edited 2005-09-13 11:56:14 by DavidBuchmann
current version: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/FreevoAptDebian