Missing dependancies!

[Spudozo]

I cannot install PM due to broken packages i.e. missing files. Never had this before so any ideas please?

I note that Steve has mentioned a fix in '-2' which I think is the same issue but I still get the same result. (viewtopic.php?f=37&t=19954#p147834)

I have tried both the PPA and direct 'deb' but in both cases the following are required: 'libavcodec 54 to 58' Not seen this before and using LInux Mint ( Mate) 18.3 (Sylvia)

[Spudozo]

I have trolled 'Synaptic' and cannot find any reference to these files (libavcodec 54 to 58 and libavcodec-extra 54 - 58) so not able to install them.

Need help with this puzzle as not being a programmer I'm stuffed!!

[trava90]

On some distro's libavcodec is included in the ffmpeg package. Try installing that package.

[Spudozo]

Hi trava90 that is loaded and I have re-installed it plus libavcodec-extra and libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 just in case. No change!

I had thought about removing one or two and replacing with 'similar' files but the 'auto-removable' queue looked deadly so I have left that for the moment,
especially as it is untrodden ground.

I shall pop a query on the Mint Forum and see if any suggestions are forthcoming.

Meanwhile using Chromium as Firefox keeps crashing. Pale Moon where are you??

[stevenpusser]

OK, looks like Ubuntu went their own way with the 16.04 packages and decided to give them yet another name with "ffmpeg" added for the transition from the libav source to ffmpeg, so I'll add those as alternatives with a new "-3" revision. New build should be ready in an hour or so.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/ffmpeg

The problem stems from me trying to optimize the dependencies per Debian policy, since PM really doesn't need all of ffmpeg for playback...but there turned out to be a lot of different libavcodec package names out there.

[Spudozo]

Hi stevepusser sorry to give you extra work. What I do not understand is why PM worked before when I was using 18.3. Is it an update they have done? Not that it really matters I suppose.

Looking forward to success . . .

EDIT 18-8 @ 21:20

Super all up and running - what a relief canna stand Firefox or Chromium!

Thanks very much.

[stevenpusser]

Glad to see that's fixed. For previous versions, I had it depend on ffmpeg or libav-tools, which would automatically pull in the distro's version of libavcodec, but also more stuff that Pale Moon doesn't need. Debian packaging policy doesn't really like that sort of thing at all, so I'm having it just bring only what it really uses with the various versions of libavcodec.

I'll do a -4 revision to add support for Ubuntu Trusty builds if I get a successful gcc-4.9 Trusty build in the repo, but that takes hours and hours to build there.