Q. Why mplayer is still in your repository ?
Q. How to know when a package is added ?
Q. How long do I need to wait to see a package in testing ?
Q. How to report a bug ?
Q. Why apt tell me that the deb-multimedia-keyring package has been automatically installed and are no longer required" ?
Q. How to install acroread for amd64 ?
Q. Why mplayer is still in your repository ? A. Because my package is built with more features.
Here is the output of the configure script for i386 (only disabled options).
Official package : Disabled optional drivers:
Input: radio tv-dshow nemesi libdvdcss(internal)
Codecs: xvid libdv toolame twolame libmad
Audio output: sun arts ivtv dxr2
Video output: zr zr2 ivtv dxr3 dxr2 vesa aa ggi winvidix vdpau bl xvr100 tdfx_vid wii s3fb
deb-multimedia package : Disabled optional drivers :
Input : tv-dshow nemesi libdvdcss(internal)
Codecs : toolame
Audio output : sun ivtv dxr2
Video output : zr zr2 ivtv dxr2 vesa winvidix 3dfx bl xvr100 tdfx_vid wii
Q.How to know when a package is added ? A. You can subscribe to the dmo.changes mailing list.
All changes (maximum 30/month) to my repository are sent to that list. To subscribe send an e-mail to with subscribe in the subject.
Or click on this link :
Please don't use HTML even for subscribe/unsubscribe e-mails. Q.How many time a need to wait to see a package in testing ? A. My packages follow the same
policy than the official packages. You can read the
update_testing file updated every day at 10:00 (UTC+0200).
Q.How to report a bug ? A. If the bug is related to packaging you can send a bug report, otherwise the best is to contact the upstream author.
Q.Why apt tell me that the deb-multimedia-keyring package has been automatically installed and are no longer required ? A.Because this package has been installed by the transitional debian-multimedia-keyring package.
The solution is to use apt-mark to mark this package as manually installed.
apt-mark manual deb-multimedia-keyring
or if you use aptitude :
aptitude unmarkauto deb-multimedia-keyring
and voila the deb-multimedia-keyring is gone from the apt autoremove list.
Q. How to install acroread for amd64 ? dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install acroread:i386
Also you need (if you want to print) to add the current user to the lp group.