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

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:36:10 +0200
Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> ?
> 

libavcodec52:
  Installed: 4:0.5.2-6
  Candidate: 4:0.5.2-6
  Version table:
 *** 4:0.5.2-6 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
vlc-nox:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:


> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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"

that returns A LOT of packages, maybe all of them :-)

> 
> 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"

that returns _none_.

> I would try to identify any debian-multimedia packages, and replace them 
> with official debian packages. When there are no packages from 
> debian-multimedia
> 

Seems like that should be a reasonable thing to do, isn't there a field in the package description describing it's source ?