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#166
Originally Posted by dattani98
guys - have been tying to install mplayer for 2 days but the application manager tells me its broken. This is the extract from the log - help!!!! oh - I also get something similar when installing xterm.....

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Installing mplayer 1.0pre8-maemo.4
apt-worker: not configuring unrelated package libncurses5
apt-worker: not configuring unrelated package libvte-common
apt-worker: not configuring unrelated package libvte4
apt-worker: not configuring unrelated package osso-xterm
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: not found
Selecting previously deselected package mplayer.
(Reading database ... 12203 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mplayer (from .../mplayer_1.0pre8-maemo.4_armel.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mplayer:
mplayer depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1); however:
Package libncurses5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mplayer (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mplayer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
It seems that you have some packages unconfigured on your device.
Could you show me the output of this command: 'dpkg --configure -a" please?
You should run it from root account.

You also can try to run 'apt-get update && apt-get -f install', but it can remove some packages, so please be careful and read apt messages properly.