<SOLVED> Can't install VLC on Debian Mint

[TheAndyBob]

Hello,
I've searched google and many other forums, but can't seem to find the solution to my problem here. I'm trying to install VLC in my debian version of Mint (currently vlc is not installed). However, when I try to install it, I get these errors:

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sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-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:
 mozilla-plugin-vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.11-2+b2) but it is not going to be installed
 vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1:2.0.0-0.1) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libavcodec53 (>= 5:0.10) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libva-x11-1 (> 1.0.14~) but 1.0.12-2 is to be installed
       Depends: libva1 (> 1.0.14~) but 1.0.12-2 is to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1:2.0.0-0.1) but it is not going to be installed
 vlc-plugin-pulse : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1:2.0.0-0.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libpulse0 (>= 0.99.4) but 0.9.23-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages


So me being a newbie at debian ubuntu, I see something that said broken packages, and figure I'd try to fix any broken packages by doing:

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sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libcrystalhd3 libaacplus2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

But then after trying to install vlc again, I get the same error. Am I missing something that's staring at me right in the face? How should I go about fixing this problem? Thanks for any help!

[xenopeek]

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[zerozero]

Can you please share with us the output of

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inxi -r

[TheAndyBob]

Sure.

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inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main


[zerozero]

well, yeahh, read this topic (it's about mplayer2, but the issue is the same) and this as well
any question just ask

[Myself]

Hi,

Reading through your post I can see that you got exactly the same error I got after doing an update.

The problem was caused by one of my repositories pointing to Debian rather than Linux Mint which meant I was trying to install a newer version of VLC but with incorrect dependencies..

I got the a correct source list from Lippy, changed my source list, opened Synaptic and was then able to reinstall older version of VLC.

You can find the list at this posting:

viewtopic.php?f=190&t=96334

[Lippy]

Yep, the problem is that you are directly pointing to the Debian Security and Multimedia repositories. After Update Pack 3 was released, Mint now host a copy of each which are fully compatible with the Update Packs. What you will need to do is change your sources to point to the Mint repositories.

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gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Find these two lines:

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deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free


And replace them with these two lines instead:

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deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free


Save and close the file. Reload the Update Manager and you should be good to go.

[TheAndyBob]

Thanks for the suggestions. I've looked at the posts, and tried what they suggested, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. That is, I tried altering the repos as you suggested, I checked to make sure backports wasn't ticked for the repos (apparently others were having problems with that), I'm kinda stuck.... :-/

[zerozero]

please check if this topic can help you viewtopic.php?f=190&t=96426#p551165

[TheAndyBob]

That did it zerozero! Thanks for the help y'all. What worked was purging VLC with apt-get purge (didn't know I could do it like that), and after that I was able to reinstall VLC (at least v 1.11, but i'll take it). Thanks

[zerozero]

glad you got it sorted

[krikit]

Yep, the problem is that you are directly pointing to the Debian Security and Multimedia repositories. After Update Pack 3 was released, Mint now host a copy of each which are fully compatible with the Update Packs. What you will need to do is change your sources to point to the Mint repositories.

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gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Find these two lines:

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deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free


And replace them with these two lines instead:

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deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free


Save and close the file. Reload the Update Manager and you should be good to go.

ahhhh, thanks so much - I didn't realize how much I'd miss VLC until I was unable to use it