Use aptitude in preference to apt-get.
Make sure you have multiverse in /etc/apt/sources.list:
Code:
% grep multiverse /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v " *#"
Make sure you've updated your list of packages:
Code:
% sudo aptitude update
% aptitude search mplayer ## results in something like the following:
v mplayer -
v mplayer-386 -
i mplayer-586 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
v mplayer-686 -
v mplayer-custom -
v mplayer-doc -
i A mplayer-fonts - Fonts for mplayer
v mplayer-k6 -
v mplayer-k7 -
v mplayer-nogui -
Now:
% sudo aptitude install mplayer-386
should work.
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