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

2011-07-12 05:52, briand@aracnet.com skrev:

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
It says that the package libavcodec52 from squeeze is going to be installed, whreas you need the package from wheezy. This puzzles me. 

What is the output of

apt-cache policy libavcodec52 vlc-nox

?






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.




On the multimedia repository:

You might still have packages from debian-multimedia on your system.
I have just started to enjoy the aptitude search facility, but I believe that 

aptitude search "~i ! ~S ~i ~ODebian"
might give you a list of packages that you have installed, but whose installed version is not coming from debian. This would include (possibly along with others) any package on your system that still originates from debian-multimedia. 

Perhaps

aptitude search "~i ~S ~i ~OUnofficial"
will work even better (give fewer false positives), and only list packages whose origin contains Unofficial.
I would try to identify any debian-multimedia packages, and replace them with official debian packages. When there are no packages from debian-multimedia
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