I have installed Ubuntu (Ubuntu 2.6.38-11-generic-pae #50-Ubuntu SMP, i686 Athlon i386 GNU/Linux). I am newcomer in Linux.
I am trying to install VLC media player using command line:
% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc
The first command is executed without problems. Then I tried to run the second line, which gives me following 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: mozilla-plugin-vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.3) but it is not going to be installed vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.6-1~) but it is not going to be installed or
libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.6-1~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libva-x11-1 but it is not installable
Depends: libva1 but it is not installable
Depends: libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.3.6) but it is not installable
Depends: libxcb-randr0 (>= 1.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxcb-xv0 (>= 1.2) but it is not installable
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.3) but it is not going to be installed vlc-plugin-pulse : Depends: vlc-nox (=
1.1.9-1ubuntu1.3) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages
How can I resolve this issue?
After that I also tried to install GNOME Media Player from Ubuntu software center. It returned following error message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-media-player: Depends: libatkmm-1.6-1 (>= 2.22.0) but 2.22.5-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4) but 2.13-0ubuntu13 is to be installed
Depends: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2) but 1.4.6-1ubuntu6.1 is to be installed
Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78) but 0.92-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but 1:4.5.2-8ubuntu4 is to be installed
Depends: libgconf2-4 (>= 2.31.1) but 2.32.2-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.28.6-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.27.3) but 2.28.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.0) but 0.10.32-1ubuntu5 is to be installed
Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.7) but 0.10.32-3ubuntu3.1 is to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.24.4-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.22.0) but 1:2.24.0-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) but 2.2.4.2-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.5) but 4.5.2-8ubuntu4 is to be installed
Depends: libunique-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0) but 1.1.6-1.1ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: libvlc5 (>= 1.1.0) but 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.3 is to be installed
Depends: libxine1 (>= 1.1.8-1) but it is not going to be installed
Best Answer
The logs there are telling you that you're missing a bunch of dependencies. You can go the slow route of installing each one individually or separated by a space. However, I'm running ubuntu 11.04 (latest stable version) and have not experienced the same issues. Only difference could be that I did (below) after a new install.
When I go to install vlc
It tells me that I need to install dependencies. I type Y to install them. The process goes through normally and installs.