Bug#613467: vlc cannot be installed (broken package)

Karl Sackett karl.sackett at gmail.com
Sun Feb 27 16:27:32 UTC 2011


I'm having the same problem.  Here's my output:

miranda$ 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 (= 1.1.3-1squeeze2) but it is not going to be
installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.1.3-1squeeze2) but it is not going
to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.1.3-1squeeze2) but it is not going
to be installed
E: Broken packages
miranda$ apt-cache policy vlc vlc-nox libavcodec52 libavcodec-extra-52
libavcodec52:
  Installed: 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2
  Candidate: 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2
  Version table:
 *** 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 0
        500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:0.5.2-6 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
libavcodec-extra-52:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
vlc:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.1.3-1squeeze2
  Version table:
     1.1.3-1squeeze2 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
vlc-nox:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.1.3-1squeeze2
  Version table:
     1.1.3-1squeeze2 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages


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