Re: old software

[James <bjlockie@lockie.ca>]

On 03/10/2015 08:23 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-03-10, James <bjlockie@lockie.ca> wrote:
> > I installed Debian7 but it has old software.
> > I manually installed LibreOffice-4.4 (LibreOffice-3 was the default).
> >
> > I also want to upgrade VNC because the default is v2.0.3 and the current
> > version is 2.2.0.
> > I followed the instructions on the videolan.org website to add the
> > backports repository but I get this error:
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >    vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.1.5-1~bpo70+1) but 2.0.3-5+deb7u2+b1 is to
> > be installed
> >          Depends: libvlccore7 (>= 2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
> >          Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.1.5-1~bpo70+1) but
> > 2.0.3-5+deb7u2+b1 is to be installed
> >          Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.1.5-1~bpo70+1) but
> > 2.0.3-5+deb7u2+b1 is to be installed
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> It's not clear what instructions you followed nor what commands you
> executed, but try this:
>
> 	apt-get install -t wheezy-backports vlc
>
> Please see http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ for the official
> Debian instructions.
>
> FYI, libreoffice 4.3 is also available in wheezy-backports.

These were the instructions:
www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html

Same command as you posted.
Same error as before.

I don't have /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
I have a file /etc/apt/sources.list so I added deb 
http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main there.