Gstreamer won't install and/or download

Hi bugmenot

Did you add any custom repositories?
If you did, and removed them, it can lead to this kind of problem.

So I would first make sure the cache is clear:

sudo apt-get clear

Then if it's still no working, I would simply try to uninstall gstreamer, and reinstall it. It will maybe uninstall plenty of other softwares though, you have to be careful.

No I haven't added any other custom repositories.
I did the sudo apt-get clear but i got this error:
rob@rob-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get clear
Password:
E: Invalid operation clear
I have already tried uninstalling gstreamer and then reinstalling it but it still won't let me.
In the synaptics package manager it doesn't have anything under "latest version"

Sorry....

sudo apt-get clean

then

sudo apt-get update

My mistake...

It still hasn't worked. It came up with another bunch of errors.

rob@rob-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get clean
rob@rob-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Translation-en_AU
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_AU
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Translation-en_AU
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Packages
Get:3 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Get:4 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_AU
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release
Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Sources
Get:5 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages [1307kB]
99% [5 Packages gzip 0]
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://au.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 5B in 4s (1B/s)
Failed to fetch http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

The error message is maybe not a problem. Did you try to install the package?

I've just downloaded a deb package for it and now it's saying "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libc6

To download packages manually is usually not a good idea.

What happens if you try to install the gstream good plugins using
Synaptic?

        François

Hello.. Try out sudo apt-cache search gstreamer... Looks like
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good is not mentioned in your repositories.. So I doubt whether the package will be in synaptic... anyways try out the above command and paste its output here..
A few observations:
1.Looks like you have not enabled the multiverse and universe repositories at the top view...
2. To add Extra repositories in ubuntu Pls refer:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto
3.if so,after enabling all the repositories sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good should install the package along with the dependencies and do the trick...:)
br,
Bhavani Shankar

I found an easier way to do this. I just formatted and reinstalled. Worked the charm. It all works perfectly now.

Hello,
   I am working on application to build audio and video compression and decompression. I decided to use gstreamer as a framework for my application but I don't know about gstreamer. Please anyone help me to get into this as soon as possible because I have less time to build this application.

  I downloaded most of things what I needed for my application from gstreamer opensource but i didn't find any information related to gstreamer installation. I found only installation about gstreamer plugg-in.
  Please tell me how to use gstreamer in linux or ubunto.
  Is there any Installation required to start with gstreamer?

PLEASE ANYONE HELP ME .

Rahul, I don't think it's the best place to ask this question. You can try to ask your own question, but the best place to me would be the Ubuntu forum I think.