On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:36:10 +0200
Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011-07-12 05:52, bri...@aracnet.com skrev:
> > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:11:00 +1000
> > Scott Ferguson<prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 12/07/11 11:15, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> >>> apt-get install vlc yields the following:
> >>>
> >>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >>> vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to be installed
> >>> Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.6-1~) but 4:0.5.2-6 is to be
> >>> installed or
> >>> libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.6-1~) but it is not
> >>> installable
> >>> Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to
> >>> be installed
> >>> Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.1.10-1) but it is not going to
> >>> be installed
> >>> E: Broken packages
> >>>
>
> It says that the package libavcodec52 from squeeze is going to be
> installed, whreas you need the package from wheezy. This puzzles me.
>
> What is the output of
>
> apt-cache policy libavcodec52 vlc-nox
>
> ?
>
libavcodec52:
Installed: 4:0.5.2-6
Candidate: 4:0.5.2-6
Version table:
*** 4:0.5.2-6 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
vlc-nox:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Umm, you haven't been using the debian-multimedia repository have you?
> >> Because the main Debian repositories only supply the versions apt is
> >> asking for in Wheezy and Sid...
> >>
> >> If you have installed vlc from multimedia - remove it, comment out the
> >> multimedia repository, update, then reinstall.
> >>
> >
> > I _was_ using multimedia but I took it out of sources BEFORE I upgraded to
> > wheezy, and I took it out by deleting the line.
> >
>
>
> On the multimedia repository:
>
> You might still have packages from debian-multimedia on your system.
>
> I have just started to enjoy the aptitude search facility, but I believe
> that
>
> aptitude search "~i ! ~S ~i ~ODebian"
that returns A LOT of packages, maybe all of them :-)
>
> might give you a list of packages that you have installed, but whose
> installed version is not coming from debian. This would include
> (possibly along with others) any package on your system that still
> originates from debian-multimedia.
>
> Perhaps
>
> aptitude search "~i ~S ~i ~OUnofficial"
that returns _none_.
> I would try to identify any debian-multimedia packages, and replace them
> with official debian packages. When there are no packages from
> debian-multimedia
>
Seems like that should be a reasonable thing to do, isn't there a field in the
package description describing it's source ?
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