Ubuntu Precise 12.04 unstable: installing vlc 1.2 using a ppa
andy@D420:~$ sudo apt-fast -y install vlc
Working...
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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-nox (= 1.2.0~~
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.2.0~~
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.2.0~~
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
-e
Done! Verify that all packages were installed successfully. If errors are found, run apt-get clean as root and try again using apt-get directly.
andy@D420:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc-nox
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-nox : Depends: libx264-116 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
andy@D420:~$ sudo apt-get install libx264-118
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libx264-118 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Linux D420 3.2.0-2-generic #5-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 28 18:09:32 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
vlc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.2.0~~
Version table:
1.
500 http://
1.1.12-3 0
500 http://
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This question was originally filed as bug #898814.