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
> 

aha - thank you for that command hint !

after dinking around with some of the dependencies it looks like libavutil50 was causing all the problems.

The strange thing is that it _still_ said it should be comming from wheezy.  Yet purging it and reinstalling vlc looks to have fixed everything.

Strange.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Brian