On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Matteo Riva <mura...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger <demide...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Do you use the debian multimedia repo? >> >> Because I had the same problem with VLC myself yesterday, the only >> thing I could do to fix it was to disable the dm repo, purge vlc, and >> reinstall from just debian main. > > I was indeed using debian multimedia repository, but purging VLC and > reinstalling after removing the multimedia repository from sources.list > made no difference :S > > Any particular step I missed? > > - removed debian multimedia from /etc/apt/sources.list > - # aptitude purge vlc > - # aptitude update > - # aptitude install vlc > > Thanks again
Hey, I would try aptitude clean to make sure its not reinstalling from the newer but broken libs from dm. Apart from that, I dont have a clue, I think the problem was libavcodec52 or libavformat52 as one of them was upgraded about the same time vlc broke for me. Regards, Angus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktika91z0olnkg6e8tnsbdsyg21rski1ary1xt...@mail.gmail.com