How to install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg on Debian 8 Jessie (No installation candidate)

Question

On a clean Debian 8 installation i had to install some gstreamer-plugins. While most of them were already installed or were easily installable via apt-get, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg was not installable:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

threw out following warnings:

Package gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 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-ffmpeg' has no installation candidate

How can i install the package anyhow?

Answer 1

There is no package, so you cannot install it.

Debian has switched to libav in favour of ffmpeg, and the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package currently cannot be be build using libav. hence it is not jessie.

You might have luck (or not) using one of the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg packages on some ubuntu PPAs (use them at your own risk).

Btw, gstreamer0.10 has reached it's end-of-life a while ago. Debian/stretch (the next Debian release) will have gstreamer0.10 removed.

Update: recently (2015/06) Debian has decided to switch back from libav to ffmpeg. However, I don't think that this will make gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg reappear.