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I'm trying to install get_iplayer on debian 8. Looking at the release info, the testing repository has a reasonable version, but no the latest so I was planning to install that first, to get all the dependancies then use the latest from the unstable. However, there seems to be a *lot* of broken dependancies.

This may be operator error, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

Code:
# apt-get install get-iplayer

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

get-iplayer is already the newest version.

You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 get-iplayer : Depends: rtmpdump but it is not going to be installed or

                        flvstreamer but it is not going to be installed

               Depends: libxml-simple-perl but it is not going to be installed

               Recommends: id3v2 but it is not going to be installed

               Recommends: atomicparsley but it is not going to be installed

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Trying to pre-install all these by hand:

Code:
# apt-get install libwww-perl libxml-simple-perl perl rtmpdump atomicparsley id3v2 libmp3-info-perl libav-tools mplayer2

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 id3v2 : Depends: libid3-3.8.3v5 but it is not going to be installed

 libav-tools : Depends: ffmpeg but it is not going to be installed

 mplayer2 : Depends: liba52-0.7.4 but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libass5 (>= 0.10.2) but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libbs2b0 but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libdca0 but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libdvdread4 (>= 4.1.3) but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libenca0 (>= 1.9) but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libfaad2 (>= 2.7) but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: liblircclient0 but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b-3) but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libmpg123-0 (>= 1.13.7) but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libpostproc52 (>= 5:0.git20120217~) but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libquvi7 (>= 0.4.0) but it is not going to be installed

 perl : Depends: perl-base (= 5.20.2-6) but 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 is to be installed

        Depends: perl-modules (>= 5.20.2-6) but 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 is to be installed

 rtmpdump : Depends: libhogweed4 but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libnettle6 but it is not going to be installed

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

And so on.

I decided to give up and do a manual install, only to be stuck unable to install the 'external programs' - id3v2 etc.

Any ideas whats up?

Try these instructions:

https://squarepenguin.co.uk/wiki/debian/

The upshot is: don't install dependencies from testing or unstable. Install them from stable (and ffmpeg from backports), then download the get-iplayer DEB from testing and install it separately with dpkg. The testing and unstable versions of get_iplayer are the same, so no need for the latter. As you saw, pulling in dependencies from testing or unstable causes problems. The dependencies from stable work fine.

Thank you! That was sort of what I was trying to do, I just seemed to get in a pickle half way though.

Installed ok. Just need to restore my setup (download histories etc).

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