Installing mplayer

[the_mouse]

themouse@tilixbox:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package mplayer 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 mplayer has no installation candidate
themouse@tilixbox:~$

How can I install mplayer without adding some other repos in sources.list (I was told it's not a wise idea)?

[aysiu]

Re: Installing mplayer

There's nothing wrong with adding repositories.
Who told you it was a bad idea?

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources

[luke1011]

Re: Installing mplayer

perhaps someone was advising you to be careful about adding repos that are not "trustworthy" enabling universe and multiverse is fine.

[the_mouse]

Re: Installing mplayer

Adding the ordinary debian repos made my kubuntu wanna remove some kubuntu-config packages if i wanna update