(solved) help with vlc?

[eastexas]

I have read the other posts here on this site about update killing their vlc but nothing helped me. Is there anyone who could lend me a hand? I just got lmde right where I wanted it and now this.I am really enjoying lmde but this will be a deal breaker. I will reinstall if i have to but don't really want to.

Going to bed now but will look back here first thing in the morning. Thanks forum Gods.

[Lippy]

Going to need to find out what your sources list is first, which should help to identify the problem. Can you post the output of this command?

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inxi -r

[nomko]

Do you get any error messages when you start Vlc from the command line (terminal)? If so, please post them here.

[eastexas]

@nomko I just lost vlc. It was just not on my system or at least I can't see it or install it.

@Lippy here is what the terminal spit out

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

I changed it to this after reading another post on these forums. Seems I did an update and vlc just disappeared.

Can't even select VLC from sofeware manager

when I try synaptic I get this-

vlc:
Depends: vlc-nox but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libvlccore4 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse but it is not going to be installed

everything VLC related in Synaptic has an orange starburt thing next to it except vlc-data.

Thanks for trying to help me

[zerozero]

if you don't have a copy/backup of the sources.list you replaced we never know exactly what and why that happened; but my best guess is that your multimedia repo was directly pointing at debian and not being mirrored by mint < this just explains why this happened;

now the problem: during this time (and assuming this was what happened) you got new library updates (from multimedia) but they were not compatible with the rest of the system (that is frozen in UP3); changing the repos doesn't change the newer libraries that you have installed and the incompatibility persists;

you have to purge vlc (and related pkgs first) so that you can after install it again
try this in the terminal (it's just a dry-run > so no real action will be taken) so we can have an idea of the outcome

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sudo apt-get purge -s vlc vlc-nox vlc-data

[eastexas]

@zerozero -- this is what I got

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package vlc is not installed, so not removed
Package vlc-nox is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gnome-cards-data gnuchess-book gnome-games-extra-data python-gtkglext1
libgtkglext1 gnome-games-data gnuchess libimlib2 libaacplus2 freeglut3
libcrystalhd3 python-opengl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libvlc5* libvlccore5* vlc-data*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Purg libvlc5 [1:2.0.0-0.1]
Purg libvlccore5 [1:2.0.0-0.1]
Purg vlc-data [1:2.0.0-0.1]

[zerozero]

now, if you perform the same command, but without the -s switch you will purge the partially installed vlc 2.0 and will be (so i hope) then able to install vlc 1.11;
it looks like a bad trade-off, but it's a working 1.11 for a broken 2.0 and in a few days (can't say exactly how many but it's not far) with UP4 you will have again vlc2.0 back.

so now you have 2 options:
- leave everything as it is, wait for UP4 (shouldn't be long) and in the meantime use another media player)
- purge vlc, vlc-nox and vlc-data, then clean the cache (apt-get clean) and after install again vlc;

[eastexas]

You are a forum lifesaver. Worked great. Got VLC installed. My movies look like little icons now but they work and vlc seems to work as normal. Thank you all so much for taking the time to help me with this issue.

If you wouldn't mind answering a question?

What will happen when UP4 is out? Do I need to do anything special seeing as I chose option 2?

I mean I don't want to avoid updates but guess I need to look more closely at what is being updated.

Thanks again.

ps. Wish there was a thanks button next to peoples names. Just a suggestion.

[zerozero]

glad you have the issue sorted

as you now are in sync with with the mint mirrored repos i wouldn't expect nothing special to happen;
you can have a look into the future here where we are testing UP4

[eastexas]

Okay, thanks for being there for me. Look forward to UP4 and will read that thread you potsed.

These forums have been very helpful and the people on them have been especially kind to this noobie.

[Sithun]

This worked for me as well. I was about to post a new thread about this issue, but i decided to do the correct thing and use the search-function. Many thanks to you!