Re: Mythnetvision and flash player

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Author: Rob Owens
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: Mythnetvision and flash player
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 07:25:57PM +0100, Guillaume Membré wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm tryig to install the package mythnetvision on a fresh wheezy but I
> encountered the following error :
> # apt-get install -t unstable mythnetvision
> 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:
> mythnetvision : Depends: flashplayer-mozilla but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> In fact, this package seems to not existing anymore in the debian
> repository. The package name for the flash player is now
> flashplugin-nonfree.
> Furthermore, I saw in old package of mythnetvision (0.24.2) that
> flashplayer-mozilla is recommended and not a dependency. Could you
> update the dependencies of this package please ?
>

A while back Christian introduced a new "non-free" section of the repo.
That is where flashplayer-mozilla is kept.

-Rob