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aclivity
4th July 2008, 01:20
Hi There

I'm an Ubuntu / Linux novice, so I apologise in advance if my questions are a bit basic. I've been given an old PC with the intention of finding out if I can use it as a server, with my music streamer in particular. I've installed Hardy Heron, and have been trying to follow the instructions here:

http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-a-linux-playstation-3-media-server-with-ubuntu8.04

I followed this step and it worked fine:
wget http://www.topdog-software.com/oss/fuppes/fuppes_0+svn611-1_i386.deb

but when I tried to carry out the dpkg step, the following occurred:
MY_USER@MY_USER-server:~$ dpkg -i fuppes_0+svn611-1_i386.deb
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
MY_USER@MY_USER-server:~$

sudo dpkg -i fuppes_0+svn611-1_i386.deb
[sudo] password for MY_USER:

Selecting previously deselected package fuppes.

(Reading database ... 120071 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking fuppes (from fuppes_0+svn611-1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fuppes:

fuppes depends on libgif4 (>= 4.1.6); however:
Package libgif4 is not installed.

fuppes depends on libmagick++10; however:
Package libmagick++10 is not installed.

fuppes depends on libsimage20; however:
Package libsimage20 is not installed.

fuppes depends on libswscale1d (>= 0.cvs20070307); however:
Package libswscale1d is not installed.

dpkg: error processing fuppes (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:

No problem I thought - I will simply download those packages (libgif4, libmagick++10, libsimage20 and libswscale1d) and install them myself. I found a suitable mirror site and chose to open the first file from the location using package installer, only to be presented with the following message:

Same version is available in a software channel You are recommended to install the software from the channel instead

Am I doing something really fundamentally wrong? Is this a common Ubuntu newbie type mistake?

All advice greatfully received.

Regards

Andy

topdog
4th July 2008, 13:20
why dont you use apt to install your packages it will fix the dependencies