Thom Nowakowski wrote:
apt-get -f install MPlayer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 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.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: MPlayer: Depends: libdirectfb-0.9.so.16 Depends: liblber.so.2 Depends: libldap.so.2 Depends: libresmgr.so.0.1 Depends: libslang.so.1 E: Broken packages
Anyone know what I need to do?
You need to go to the site from which you acquired mplayer then download and install the "Depends" packages first. Any decent site has those files stashed somewhere, often at the bottom of the same page on which you found mplayer. If you don't find them there then use Google and find a more complete site with mplayer and all of the dependencies on the same page. Heads-up -- if you get further errors look closely at them as they may just be telling you that one "Depends" has to be loaded before another. Yes, there should be more consise and complete instructions on these sites but folks rarely bother -- the assumption is that every visitor already knows all of these things! Sigh. doc