tag 520605 help kthxbye On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:06:40 +0100, Axel K. Stammler wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: normal > > It seems I was not quite successful in removing these packages before the upgrade. VLC, M > Player and dvdbackup all have problems playing most AVI files (VLC only) and accessing > DVDs (all programmes), so it seems I have some wring libraries still installed. I would > like to know how you can identify packages from outside sources > > 1. before taking any other steps > 2. once you have commented out or removed the outside sources from /etc/apt/sources.list > 3. left polluting the system after the upgrade (my situation) > I use apt-show-versions for this. I guess aptitude has some way of getting at that list, but I wouldn't know how. Tagging as help, hoping somebody will figure out what we should do about this. Cheers, Julien
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