Bug#595252: vlc: Says "Please update alsa-lib"

[Nigel Horne]

On 03/09/10 08:05, David Henningsson wrote:
> 2010-09-02 15:47, Nigel Horne skrev:
>    
>> Package: vlc
>> Version: 1.1.3-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> No audio comes out of an audio CD.  I get the mesage
>>
>> 	Potential ALSA version problem:
>> 	VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any).
>> 	Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this issue.
>>
>> But when I try "aptitude install alsa-lib", I get
>>
>> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "alsa-lib"
>>      
> Under Debian and derivatives, alsa-lib is called "libasound2".
Wouldn't it be less confusing if it said "Please update libasound2..."?



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