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Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my system - am I correct here?

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On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:37:03PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 09 Jul 2021 at 15:05:20 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:41:17PM +0200, Joerg Kampmann wrote:
> > > Hello - I tried to install ffmpeg (a normal Debian package) and got some
> > > strange messages. the ffmpeg-group adviced me to go to a Debian group. I
> > > hope I am correct here in this group.
> > > 
> > > I am running Debian 9 on a Fujitsu TX 100 S1 computer ...
> > 
> > This is not the current stable release.  You may wish to *consider*
> > upgrading, as running older releases tends to be incompatible with
> > the desire to install recent versions of web browsers, video players,
> > and other large and complicated packages.
> 
> The OP says:
> 
>   Hello - I tried to install ffmpeg...
> 
> This is on Debian 9. Either it installs or it doesn't. It did for me.
> 
> Not being the current release seems neither here nor there.

We shall see.

I have a theory that they tried to add buster sources (or
buster-backports, or some third-party repository meant for buster)
because they wanted newer stuff than was available in stretch or
stretch-backports.  Frankendebian ensued.

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Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my system -  am I correct here? Joerg Kampmann <ibk-klima-vortrag@ibk-consult.de> - 2021-07-09 20:50 +0200
  Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-09 21:10 +0200
    Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Kampmann <kampmann@ibk-consult.de> - 2021-07-09 21:10 +0200
  Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-09 21:10 +0200
    Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-09 21:40 +0200
      Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-09 21:50 +0200
        Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Kampmann <kampmann@ibk-consult.de> - 2021-07-09 21:50 +0200
        Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-09 22:00 +0200
      Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Kampmann <kampmann@ibk-consult.de> - 2021-07-09 21:50 +0200
  Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my system - am I correct here? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-07-09 21:20 +0200
    Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Kampmann <kampmann@ibk-consult.de> - 2021-07-09 21:40 +0200
      Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-09 21:50 +0200
        Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Joerg Kampmann <ibk-klima-vortrag@ibk-consult.de> - 2021-07-09 22:00 +0200
          Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my system - am I correct here? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-07-09 22:50 +0200
            Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Joerg Kampmann <ibk-klima-vortrag@ibk-consult.de> - 2021-07-09 23:20 +0200
              Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-09 23:20 +0200
                Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Kampmann <kampmann@ibk-consult.de> - 2021-07-09 23:40 +0200
    Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my  system - am I correct here? Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2021-07-11 00:10 +0200

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