I had some problems with the VLC installed via apt-get install vlc
so looked at the
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html
to install VLC from wheezy-backports.
So I have first removed current version:
Commandline: apt-get --purge remove vlc
Purge: vlc:i386 (2.0.6-dmo1)
then autoremove not needed packages as recommended by the system:
Commandline: apt-get autoremove
Remove: libva-x11-1:i386 (1.0.15-4), libxcb-keysyms1:i386 (0.3.9-1), libsvga1:i386 (1.4.3-33), libtar0:i386 (1.2.16-1), libwebp2:i386 (0.1.3-3+nmu1), python-central:i386 (0.6.17), libxcb-randr0:i386
(1.8.1-2+deb7u1), libxcb-composite0:i386 (1.8.1-2+deb7u1), vlc-plugin-notify:i386 (2.0.6-dmo1), vlc-plugin-pulse:i386 (2.0.6-dmo1), libsdl-image1.2:i386 (1.2.12-2)
then added following to my sources.list
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
## VLC Wheezy-Backports
deb
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
and run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
now, when I want to install vlc from backports with command I get this:
sudo apt-get -t wheezy-backports install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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 (= 2.0.3-5) but 1:2.0.6-dmo1 is to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3-5) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.3-5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
it is same for normal install as well:
sudo apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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 (= 2.0.3-5) but 1:2.0.6-dmo1 is to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3-5) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.3-5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I have found this command in here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/33223...n-dependencies
sudo apt-cache policy vlc-data vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse
vlc-data:
Installed: 1:2.0.6-dmo1
Candidate: 1:2.0.6-dmo1
Version table:
*** 1:2.0.6-dmo1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.0.3-5 0
500
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
vlc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.0.3-5
Version table:
2.0.3-5 0
500
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
vlc-nox:
Installed: 1:2.0.6-dmo1
Candidate: 1:2.0.6-dmo1
Version table:
*** 1:2.0.6-dmo1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.0.3-5 0
500
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
vlc-plugin-notify:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.0.3-5
Version table:
2.0.3-5 0
500
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
vlc-plugin-pulse:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.0.3-5
Version table:
2.0.3-5 0
500
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
but sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade does not solve the problem
as I still get the same message.
