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catch22

#! Junkie

From: Belgium, Europe

Registered: 2009-10-16

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soundconverter no mp3 available

The goal is to convert some FLAC-files to mp3.
I found several threads on the forum about this, but I'm still lost...
Synaptic doesn't show gstreamer0.10-lame, and trying to get it in terminal I get this:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-lame
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package gstreamer0.10-lame is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'gstreamer0.10-lame' has no installation candidate

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el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,644

Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

You need to add the Debian Multimedia repo.

gstreamer0.10-lame:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.10.17-0.0
  Version table:
     0.10.17-0.0 0
        300 ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze/main i386 Packages

catch22

#! Junkie

From: Belgium, Europe

Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 466

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Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

You need to add the Debian Multimedia repo.

Clicking that link I see: "The first package to install is debian-multimedia-keyring. Since Squeeze you can install this package with apt-get ..."
So in terminal I typed:

sudo apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring

and then get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package debian-multimedia-keyring

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xaos52

The Good Doctor

From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 4,291

Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

1. add multimedia repo to your sources.list
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
4. sudo apt-get-install gstreamer*

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pvsage

Internal Affairs

From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 9,017

Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

^ You shouldn't even need to manually install the gstreamer Lame module; once you have the multimedia keyring installed, a simple dist-upgrade should pull lame support for anything you have installed.

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johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2009-01-07

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Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

^just tried dist-upgrade and it pulled in nothing. I have soundconverter installed, multimedia repos enabled and gstreamer0.10-lame is available, but not installed.

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pvsage

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 9,017

Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

Try another apt-get update first; remember you had to manually confirm the keyring installation rather than simply pressing [enter], so it's possible apt doesn't recognize those packages as coming from a trusted source yet.

EDIT:  I just ran an aptitude search for gstreamer0.10-lame, and it says it isn't installed on my system either, so it looks like you'll have to manually install it after all.  (I guess the applications I use to encode mp3's all use libmp3lame0, which is automatically pulled in from multimedia.)

Last edited by pvsage (2011-09-10 16:39:27)

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catch22

#! Junkie

From: Belgium, Europe

Registered: 2009-10-16

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Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

1. add multimedia repo to your sources.list
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
4. sudo apt-get-install gstreamer*

that last command is now installing some 137 packages! I hope this goes well
I'll confirm by editing the post that my machine is still alive, in a few minutes, I hope
EDIT: all's well and soundconverter indeed now has mp3 also :-) Thanks!

Last edited by catch22 (2011-09-10 17:55:28)

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pvsage

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

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Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

If you just installed the Lame module, it would automatically pull in any dependencies.  I meant to mention that 'gstreamer*' would probably pull in a lot of packages (and their dependencies!) that you don't really need...if you have the space for it in /, it shouldn't cause any trouble other than taking up space.

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catch22

#! Junkie

From: Belgium, Europe

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Re: soundconverter no mp3 available

... it shouldn't cause any trouble other than taking up space.

Comforting to know, thanks pvsage

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