Should require mplayer-nogui instead of mplayer

Thanks for repoting this.

I'm on it.

This bug was fixed in the package devede - 3.14.0-0ubuntu5

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devede (3.14.0-0ubuntu5) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Depends on mplayer-nogui instead of mplayer (LP: #425235).
    - Move to video section.

 -- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:40:25 +0200

Forgive me if I'm asking a daft question, but when I install devede in karmic, the software wants to remove mplayer and replace it with mplayer-nogui. Since I use mplayer as part of SMplayer, will this mean that I can no longer use SMplayer if I want to use devede?

If this is the case, might it not be better to install mplayer-nogui only if mplayer is not installed?

Sorry, but I can't reproduce this bug.

After installing mplayer, I try to install devede, that's the log:

(karmic_amd64)root@quadromatic:/home/alessio# apt-get install devede
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libxaw7 freepats libxmu6 libxpm4 timidity-daemon timidity
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dvdauthor genisoimage ghostscript gsfonts imagemagick libavcodec-extra-52
  libavformat-extra-52 libavutil-extra-49 libcdio7 libcupsimage2 libdirac0c2a
  libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libfaad0 libffi5
  libgd2-noxpm libglade2-0 libgraphviz4 libgs8 libilmbase6 libiso9660-5
  liblcms1 libltdl7 libmagickcore2 libmagickwand2 libopenexr6 libopenjpeg2
  libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpostproc-extra-51 libswscale-extra-0 libvcdinfo0
  libwmf0.2-7 mencoder psfontmgr python-cairo python-glade2 python-gobject
  python-gtk2 python-support vcdimager
Suggested packages:
  wodim cdrkit-doc ghostscript-cups ghostscript-x hpijs transfig
  imagemagick-doc libdvdcss2 wget debhelper libgd-tools liblcms-utils
  libwmf0.2-7-gtk mplayer-doc ttf-freefont python-gtk2-doc python-gobject-dbg
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libavcodec52 libavformat52 libavutil49 libpostproc51 libswscale0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  devede dvdauthor genisoimage ghostscript gsfonts imagemagick
  libavcodec-extra-52 libavformat-extra-52 libavutil-extra-49 libcdio7
  libcupsimage2 libdirac0c2a libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libdvdnav4
  libdvdread4 libfaad0 libffi5 libgd2-noxpm libglade2-0 libgraphviz4 libgs8
  libilmbase6 libiso9660-5 liblcms1 libltdl7 libmagickcore2 libmagickwand2
  libopenexr6 libopenjpeg2 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpostproc-extra-51
  libswscale-extra-0 libvcdinfo0 libwmf0.2-7 mencoder psfontmgr python-cairo
  python-glade2 python-gobject python-gtk2 python-support vcdimager
0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7597kB/22.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 54.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

As you can see, it doesn't ask me for removing mplayer-nogui.

If you look at the dependencies, you will see that mplayer depends on mplayer-nogui. So I strongly suspect that you have a PPA which contains mplayer. I had the same issue when testing mplayer with vdpau from a PPA.

$ apt-cache show mplayer
Package: mplayer
Priority: extra
Section: multiverse/graphics
Installed-Size: 4904
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian multimedia packages maintainers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu9
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, mplayer-skin, mplayer-nogui, libasound2 (>> 1.0.18), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libaudio2, libavcodec52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1) | libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1), libavformat52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1) | libavformat-extra-52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1), libavutil49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1) | libavutil-extra-49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcaca0 (>= 0.99.beta15-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcdparanoia0 (>= 3.10.2+debian), libdirectfb-1.2-0, libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd0 (>= 0.2.35), libfaac0 (>= 1.26), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.9), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgif4 (>= 4.1.6), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libjack0 (>= 0.116.1), libjpeg62, liblircclient0, liblzo2-2, libmp3lame0, libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3), libopenal1, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpostproc51 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1) | libpostproc-extra-51 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1), libpulse0 (>= 0.9.18), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libsmbclient (>= 3.0.24), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libsvga1, libswscale0 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1) | libswscale-extra-0 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1), libtheora0 (>= 0.0.0.alpha7.dfsg), libx11-6, libx264-67 (>= 1:0.svn20090502), libxext6, libxinerama1, libxt6, libxv1, libxvidcore4 (>= 1:1.0.0-0.0), libxvmc1, libxxf86dga1, libxxf86vm1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: mplayer-doc, ttf-freefont, netselect | fping, bzip2, fontconfig

(karmic_amd64)root@quadromatic:/home/alessio# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic main restricted universe multiverse

I don't see any conflict between mplayer and mplayer-nogui.

Just to prove I didn't imagine it. This is the output I get when I try to install devede:-

sudo apt-get install devede
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libpostproc-extra-51 libswscale-extra-0 mplayer-nogui
Suggested packages:
  mplayer-doc netselect fping
The following packages will be REMOVED
  libpostproc51 libswscale0 mplayer
The following NEW packages will be installed
  devede libpostproc-extra-51 libswscale-extra-0 mplayer-nogui
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,843kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,456kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

I think that Cyril Jaquier may be correct. I installed a more recent version of mplayer from the Launchpad repo (https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/mplayer). The update is recommended on the SMPlayer download page (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en).

I got round the problem by installing the tar.bz2 version from the devede website (http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html) and running the install script.

Please try the devede package available from this PPA:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/quadrispro/testing/ubuntu karmic main

Already fixed in Karmic.

Alessio: mplayer and mplayer-nogui DO conflict. (in synaptic, find mplayer, right click. on dependencies tab, go to the bottom and you will see "Conflicts: mplayer-nogui"

I have other programs that depend on the gui version of mplayer. so when i try to install devede, it forces me to remove mplayer and the other programs that depend on mplayer.

can't devede have an either/or dependency, so if mplayer is already installed it will not try to remove it and put mplayer-nogui in its place?? Or do you have a different recommendation?