[Wurnman]

Hi all i am trying to reinstall xbmc on Debian Wheezy (SteamOS) but i keep running into below frustration and ive googled living crap out of it.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 4:12.3.1-dmo1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-data (>= 4:12.3.1-dmo1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have done the following as suggested:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=197422&page=3
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=30619

I am of opinion that this cannot be solved. Here's my source.list repo's. As can be seen it's extensive and should work.

deb ftp://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://zw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multi$
deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy main
deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

This all came about when i could not add mashup to my xbmc add-on repository and had 90%broken repo's. I even deleted the addons/database folder for xbmc "Eden" and database15.db file or such but this did not work, therefore my unistall of Eden version and wanted to install Frodo but now i can't even do that.
I hope on God's green earth someone can assist me. Thx in advance

[wsnipex]

1st topic in this subforum...

[Wurnman]

Hi, if i understand what you mean then you meant this Topic
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=197422&page=3
which as i said did not help as i tried the part regarding the installation of xbmc...

1st topic in this subforum...

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I tried all of below marked underneath the ####, except for the part herein *** as i am not sure where to check that.

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Code:
Package: *
Pin: release l=SteamOS
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: origin mirrors.xbmc.org
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release l=Debian
Pin-Priority:-10
***

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wsnipex Wrote: apt-cache policy libva-intel-vaapi-driver


Thanks for that tip. I already found another workaround yesterday. I'll put my steps below just for those that might have a similar issue and find this thread here:

I added the wheezy deb to sources.list since they are not enabled on a brand new SteamOS box

Code:
deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free


Then I added the deb to the pinning order

Code:
Package: *
Pin: release l=SteamOS
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: origin mirrors.xbmc.org
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release l=Debian
Pin-Priority:-10

Then I did
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc

and the magic happend. Perhaps it would be good to add a little side note on the first post that the procedure above might be required for some people.

Now I only have to find a way to bring a PVR addon into this build (tvheadend)
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[wsnipex]

its a four step guide to follow from a _clean_ steamos install. If you enable steamos beta as well, there should be no issue with missing libva.

[Wurnman]

If i can remember correctly then the libva was fine, just trying to reinstall xbmc is the problem now.

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As per my first post i have tried this also, no results

Thank you all who looked at my issue. I have resolved it.

First edit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add deb-multimedia source :

deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy main

Edit : run "sudo apt-get update" before installing keyring smile

Install the keyring :
sudo apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring

Then run:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Finally :

sudo apt-get install xbmc

and you should have xbmc Frodo 12.2
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its a four step guide to follow from a _clean_ steamos install. If you enable steamos beta as well, there should be no issue with missing libva.

[wsnipex]

apt-cache policy xbmc