[SOLVED] Help installing ffmpeg - broken dependencies

Temetka · 2016-01-10 21:52:25

Odd, I've never had this problem before.

So running:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

gives me this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. 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 information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ffmpeg : Depends: libavdevice56 (>= 10:2.6.5) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: libavfilter5 (>= 10:2.6.5) but 6:11.4-1~deb8u1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So like a good lad I ran this:

sudo apt-get install -f

Which reported:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fdpowermon-icons libfreerdp-rail1.1 libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa liblivemedia23 libpostproc52
  libproxy-tools libusageenvironment1 libx264-142
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Normally in the past that has fixed my problems. I also tried going into synaptic package manger and choosing "fix broken packages." No dice. Here's it's output after running fix broken and then trying to install ffmpeg via synaptic:

ffmpeg:
 Depends: libavdevice56 but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: libavfilter5 but it is not going to be installed

So, um yeah. I am not sure what to do next.

I like using ffmpeg to transcode music from .flv or .mp4 that I download from youtube into .mp3. the files take up much less space and vlc doesn't hit the CPU as hard when playing back an audio format as vs. a video one.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

EDIT: Solved. See my last post in this thread.

Last edited by Temetka (2016-01-11 00:28:48)

brontosaurusrex · 2016-01-10 21:57:01

The easy way, get the static build and drop it into user bin - http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-01-10 22:01:37

ffmpeg is available from jessie-backports
https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all

Are you tracking testing/unstable?

EDIT:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all
&
https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all

Are you trying to install an Ubuntu package or something?

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-01-10 22:03:40)

damo · 2016-01-10 22:30:15

I recently ran into similar problems because of deb-multimedia ffmpeg and libav* dependencies. I purged all the offending packages, removed deb-multimedia source and reinstalled from jessie-backports.

Temetka · 2016-01-10 23:11:55

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

ffmpeg is available from jessie-backports
https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all
Are you tracking testing/unstable?
EDIT:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all
&
https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all
Are you trying to install an Ubuntu package or something?

I don't believe I am tracking testing/unstable.

No, I am not trying to install an Ubuntu package. I don't want to break BL.

Here's my sources.list

# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8 _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150909-03:19]/ jessie contrib main non-free

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8 _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150909-03:19]/ jessie contrib main non-free

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

# added by bl-welcome
# Multimedia repository
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free

#Official Tor Browser
deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> main

Yay, torproject.

Temetka · 2016-01-11 00:31:18

I solved the issue and was able to use apt-get install ffmpeg.

What I did was to follow the instructions from here and added jessie backports to my /etc/apt/sources.list file.

http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

Then a simple "sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install "package", where "package" = ffmpeg.

Temetka · 2016-01-15 06:47:43

UPDATE:

I just did a fresh install of BL on my Thinkpad X301 and did not encounter the issue this time. I am updating the thread because the other install that was giving me issues was on my Prescision M4400. So I can only assume that something was different between the Dell and Lenovo laptops, thus causing the issue.

#1 2016-01-10 21:52:25

[SOLVED] Help installing ffmpeg - broken dependencies

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