Re: is vlc package on really broken or is it just me

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:11:00 +1000
Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/07/11 11:15, briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > apt-get install vlc yields the following:
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be installed
> >        Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.6-1~) but 4:0.5.2-6 is to be installed or
> >                 libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.6-1~) but it is not installable
> >        Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be installed
> >        Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be installed
> > E: Broken packages
> > 
> > any way I can install the stable version ?  well at least I have a nouveau that works :-)
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
> 
> Umm, you haven't been using the debian-multimedia repository have you?
> Because the main Debian repositories only supply the versions apt is
> asking for in Wheezy and Sid...
> 
> If you have installed vlc from multimedia - remove it, comment out the
> multimedia repository, update, then reinstall.
> 

I _was_ using multimedia but I took it out of sources BEFORE I upgraded to wheezy, and I took it out by deleting the line.

dist-upgrade thinks everything is good.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

anyway to "reset" the package list or otherwise check it for consistency ?

Brian