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ismohaa

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VLC and Kaffeine won't install on Ascii [SOLVED]

I have a problem that I can't install VLC (actually it's Kaffeine that I really want to install, but it depends on some VLC-libraries).

# apt-get install vlc
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 (= 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1) but 2.2.7-1~deb9u1 is to be installed
       Depends: vlc-plugin-video-output (= 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1) but 2.2.7-1~deb9u1 is to be installed
       Depends: vlc-l10n (= 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-samba (= 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-skins2 (= 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-video-splitter (= 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-visualization (= 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

When I do a dist-upgrade it informs me that the following packages are held back: vlc-data vlc-plugin-video-output
I've tried to set those packages to be manually installed, but...

# apt-get install vlc-data vlc-plugin-video-output
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
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AAARGH! It wants to nuke my entire (KDE) desktop. How about no?

Any ideas on how I could get Kaffeine running? It's easily the best TV software on Linux.

Last edited by ismohaa (2018-08-19 06:05:16)

GNUser

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Re: VLC and Kaffeine won't install on Ascii [SOLVED]

What's the output of $ apt-cache policy vlc?

Also, apt-get is trying to fetch an old version of some dependencies (version 2.2.7-x) that's not in the repository anymore. What happens if you run # apt-get update && apt-get install vlc, any difference? My apologies if this is too obvious and you already tried it.

FYI this is what I see when I try to install vlc:

root@thinkpad:/home/bruno# apt-get update && apt-get -s install vlc
Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  vlc-bin vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-samba
  vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  vlc vlc-bin vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-samba
  vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst vlc-bin (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Inst vlc-plugin-qt (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Inst vlc-l10n (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [all])
Inst vlc (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Inst vlc-plugin-notify (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Inst vlc-plugin-samba (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Inst vlc-plugin-skins2 (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Inst vlc-plugin-video-splitter (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Inst vlc-plugin-visualization (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Conf vlc-bin (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Conf vlc-plugin-qt (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Conf vlc-l10n (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [all])
Conf vlc (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Conf vlc-plugin-notify (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Conf vlc-plugin-samba (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Conf vlc-plugin-skins2 (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Conf vlc-plugin-video-splitter (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])
Conf vlc-plugin-visualization (3.0.2-0+deb9u1 Devuan:2.0/stable [amd64])

Last edited by GNUser (2018-08-17 14:54:09)

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Re: VLC and Kaffeine won't install on Ascii [SOLVED]

Also, what does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like?

Last edited by GNUser (2018-08-17 14:57:55)

golinux

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Re: VLC and Kaffeine won't install on Ascii [SOLVED]

You might want to have a look at the recommended sources.

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fsmithred

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Re: VLC and Kaffeine won't install on Ascii [SOLVED]

Once you get your sources straightened out, just install kaffeine. You should not need to tell it to install vlc - the package manager will pull in any dependencies automatically.

ismohaa

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Re: VLC and Kaffeine won't install on Ascii [SOLVED]

What happens if you run # apt-get update && apt-get install vlc, any difference?

No. What I copy-pasted above is the result I'm getting after doing apt-get update.

What's the output of $ apt-cache policy vlc?

vlc:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1
  Version table:
     3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1 500
        500 http://46.105.191.77/merged ascii-security/main amd64 Packages
     3.0.2-0+deb9u1 500
        500 http://46.105.191.77/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://packages.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages
     2.2.7-1~deb9u1 -1
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

As you can see, the package manager is quite aware of the newer version of vlc, but if you look at the original error messages I posted, you'll see that it for some reason I can't figure out shits itself when asked to install vlc. Kaffeine actually installs, but it's broken - apparently due to the old vlc version.

Also, what does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like?

deb http://46.105.191.77/merged/ ascii main
deb-src http://46.105.191.77/merged/ ascii main

# ascii-security, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://46.105.191.77/merged/ ascii-security main non-free
deb-src http://46.105.191.77/merged/ ascii-security main non-free

# ascii-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://46.105.191.77/merged/ ascii-updates main non-free
deb-src http://46.105.191.77/merged/ ascii-updates main non-free

# Devuan repositories
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged ascii main contrib non-free
deb-src http://packages.devuan.org/merged ascii main contrib non-free

#Seamonkey
deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

#Eddie
deb http://eddie.website/repository/apt stable main

#Spotify
deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

If you're wondering about the hard coded IP, I had some weird DNS issues at some point, and had to replace packages.devuan.org with the IP-address, but nslookup still shows the address to be the same.

golinux

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Re: VLC and Kaffeine won't install on Ascii [SOLVED]

Your sources are outdated.  I posted a link above that should have clued you in about that.   packages.devuan.org (that served jessie) uses the old amprolla but is now deprecated and will be decommissioned when jessie reaches EOL.   deb.devuan.org, a round-robin of package mirrors, pulls from pkgmaster.devuan.org which is built with the new amprolla3 and has many additional features.

Please refer to the ASCII Release Notes for further clarification.

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ismohaa

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Re: VLC and Kaffeine won't install on Ascii [SOLVED]

Your sources are outdated.

I managed to solve the problem, but the root of the issue wasn't really the sources being outdated (although I have updated them since you're right about them being deprecated). The real troublemaker turned out to be spotify, which pulled in the outdated vlc-libraries and didn't update because their repository key had changed. Importing the new key and updating spotify allowed the vlc-libraries to update, and kaffeine to run. There still seems to be some version issue with vlc, but I wasn't really that interested in vlc to begin with. It seems to be an issue of having to choose between spotify and vlc (or having to do some nasty hand compiling outside the package manager) but as far as I'm concerned the issue is solved. Thanks to everyone who provided pointers.