gecko-mediaplayer0.9.9.1~svn374-0Ubuntu1 dependency issue gnome-mplayer0.9.9.1~svn1651-0ubuntu1

Asked by BavarianPH

gecko-mediaplayer needs gnome-mplayer to install

but because of a minor dependency issue in ~svn number

it breaks the package.

Why not fix this minor problem by deleting ~snv numbers,

replace it with temp-till-update, and allow us to use it.

Or give us an easy way to change dependency issues,

in a way that the average user can understand,

better yet, let synaptic do it for the user,

till you finally decide to give them both the same number.

(I love Ubuntu Lucid, I do not ever have to go back.

But remember, that many of your regular users,

are past Windows customers, who got fed up with

Microsoft.

These same users who have and will make Ubuntu

the best and greatest OS ever, are not programmers

or hackers or fond of command lines, and they scare

easily, and if they get fed up they migrate to what ever

works for them.)

(You see, right now, March 2010, PCs should be able

to solve their own issues, without the need to interrupt

the work of human beings. - Remember:

"Ubuntu, Linux for human beings".

Ubuntu must come to the point were we merely tell it

what to do, and it, not we, figures a way to do it. -

Also, teach us patiently, we want this baby to grow up

and make Windows a sub-routine under Ubuntu.

If Ubuntu could run Sims 3, my whole family would kick

Microsoft out of the house. -

We must find a common language, so we can understand

each other, that is, the common user with the developers,

the programmers, hackers and advanced users. -

I am willing to learn and help, but help files, manuals,

even forums are time consuming, and are just too

complicated and to hard to figure out. -

It often goes like this, I need a simple specific answer,

to accomplish one thing, but the help files, manuals,

even forums, documents and so on, talk about everything

else, except the answer I need. -

It's like trying to find a needle in the proverbial haystack. -

It's information overload.

Practical examples, notated to the specific issue,

without leaving out a step, do wonders.)

I am sorry, for venting a little bit, I suppose, I am a little

feverish today, suffering from a severe sinus infection.

Any-hoo, it gets frustrating when the update manager

wants to update, but can't, because of a svn number.

BavarianPH,
Ubuntu forever!

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BavarianPH (bavarianph) said :
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the gecko-mediaplayer0.9.9.1~svn374-0Ubuntu1 dependency issue gnome-mplayer0.9.9.1~svn1651-0ubuntu1 has been solved!

the newest update(for me at 6pm) installed gnome-player0.9.9.2-1

and then I installed gecko-mediaplayer0.9.9.1~svn374-0Ubuntu1

successfully.

Kudos to the developers and helpers.

Thank you very much!

BavarianPH,
Ubuntu forever!