Installing mplayer using apt -something is very off in the update of rpm sources from ayo.freshrpms.net

[Matthias Saou]

Sergio Valdes-Flores wrote :

> Hello "tocayo" (sergio rubio)
> I followed your advice of adding your line below to 
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> I did apt-get update
> and apt-get install xine
> everything fine.
> I then went ahead and decided to immediately install mplayer
> so I did apt-get update
> apt-get install mplayer
> and it fetched about 9 more packages (supposedly checking dependencies 
> in the background, right?)
> it looked just as clean as with xine...
> it is all going to come not from yellowdog but from ayo.freshrpms.net, 
> supposedly, although both places are in the sources.list
> when it finished, and I did another apt-get update
> all hell broke loose
> all of the systems dependencies in the packages, from a to z were 
> broken!!
> REINSTALL
> JODER!!!
> what is going wrong with this site and with mplayer specifically?
> If anyone on the list want to crash beyond repair your system, just 
> follow the steps.

Hmmmm, could you be a bit more specific than "all of the system
dependencies were broken"? (and be a bit more polite than "joder" ;-p)
Eventually copy/paste the output from "apt-get update" if that is where the
problem is, or any other operation which has output that looks relevant.

Here is what I just tried :

[dude@sirius dude]$ sudo apt-get install mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libpostproc mplayer-fonts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpostproc mplayer mplayer-fonts
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 removed and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 4859kB of archives.
After unpacking 12.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms libpostproc
0.90-fr2 [25.0kB]
Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms mplayer-fonts
1.0-fr1 [514kB]
Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms mplayer 0.90-fr2
[4320kB]
Fetched 4859kB in 3m3s (26.4kB/s)
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:libpostproc            ########################################### [
33%]
   2:mplayer-fonts          ########################################### [
67%]
   3:mplayer                ###########################################
[100%]
[dude@sirius dude]$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc release [1173B]
Fetched 1173B in 1s (735B/s)
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/os pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/os release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/updates pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/updates release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/os srclist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/updates srclist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms srclist
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[dude@sirius dude]$

Matthias

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