I recently migrated from using Fedora to Debian. And I'm having some issues with the package manager.
I used to be able to search for packages via yum using :
yum search <part_of_package_name_or_description>
Also while installing simple software such as VLC media player.
I get the following when I try to run:
sudo apt-get install vlc
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: vlc : Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf but it is not installable Depends: vlc-nox (= 1:2.0.3-dmo1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libavcodec54 (>= 7:0.11.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libavutil51 (>= 7:0.11.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed Depends: libtar0 but it is not installable Depends: libva-x11-1 (> 1.0.15~) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libva1 (> 1.0.15~) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.3.9) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1:2.0.3-dmo1) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1:2.0.3-dmo1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages
Can someone tell me what I should do to search for packages via command line like yum search?
And do I really have to install the dependencies manully in debian? Or am I missing something here? (Incorrect/incompatible repos perhaps?)
I don't see any aparent reason why apt-get isn't installing the dependencies on it's own.
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib non-free main deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates main # squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/debian/ squeeze-updates main deb-src http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/debian/ squeeze-updates main deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free # deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze-backports main # deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org experimental main
Basic Install requirements right now are
- Firefox (not the IceWeasel derivative)
- VLC
- Gnome3 Desktop environment.
- Improving visuals/graphic display quality. (Gnome 3 should help with that too right?)