Unable to install smplayer

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[member=6813]Manuk[/member]

The qml-module-qtquick-dialogs package info somehow got corrupted in the dpkg database and that's why it couldn't be fixed with the above commands. It is not part of smplayer but QT I believe... anyways, the point is that it didn't happen because of smplayer installation but because of some other package previously installed in your system. QT maybe?

The way you can fix this is by manually editing the status file under /var/lib/dpkg.

1- First, create a backup copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/status file. For example: to your home directory... from Terminal:

Code:

cp /var/lib/dpkg/status $HOME

2- Open /var/lib/dpkg/status as administrator. From Terminal:
gksu leafpad /var/lib/dpkg/status

3- In that file, find the qml-module-qtquick-dialogs package info and delete it... for example, for lxterminal this is what it would be like:

Code:

Package: lxterminal
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 971
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.2.0-1
Provides: x-terminal-emulator
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libvte9 (>= 1:0.28.0), libx11-6
Description: LXDE terminal emulator
LXTerminal is a VTE-based terminal emulator for the Lightweight X11 Desktop
Environment (LXDE).
.
It supports multiple tabs and has only minimal dependencies thus being
completely desktop-independent. In order to reduce memory usage and increase
the performance, all instances of the terminal are sharing a single process.
Original-Maintainer: Debian LXDE Maintainers <[email protected]>
Homepage: http://www.lxde.org/

4- Save and close the status file and run once again from Terminal:

Code:

dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install smplayer

Hope that helps.

Cheers!