Can't install VLC. Dependency nightmare

[Liquid Divide]

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➜  ~ sudo apt-get install vlc
[sudo] password for *****: 
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-plugin-base (= 1:3.0.3-dmo1+deb9u2) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: vlc-plugin-qt (= 1:3.0.3-dmo1+deb9u2) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: vlc-plugin-video-output (= 1:3.0.3-dmo1+deb9u2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
➜  ~ sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-video-output
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-plugin-video-output : Depends: libva1 (>= 1.7.3) but 1.7.0-1ubuntu0.1 is to be installed
                           Depends: libvpx4 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
                           Depends: libwebp6 (>= 0.5.1) but it is not installable
                           Depends: libwebpmux2 (>= 0.5.1) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Here's a log with some of the problem... Why can't I install the right dependencies? I'm running Mint 18.3

[MrEen]

Hi Liquid Divide.

See if this helps. Open Synaptic Package Manager, then click on Edit > Fix Broken Packages

Good luck.

[thx-1138]

Why can't I install the right dependencies?

...ehhhm, probably because you tried installing Debian packages under an Ubuntu variant?

[MrEen]

Why can't I install the right dependencies?

...ehhhm, probably because you tried installing Debian packages under an Ubuntu variant?

Good catch!

[smurphos]

inxi -Sr output would be helpful to see you Mint version and what repos you have set up.

[kukamuumuka]

PPAs installed?

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ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d