On 25 June 2018 at 20:33, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I've ended up in a bit of a bind. I updated from 14.04 to 16.04, which > seemed to go well but then I noticed that VLC was no longer installed. On > trying to re-install it, it could not find its dependency on vlc-nox. > vlc-nox is not in the 16.04 repo. I tried all the googleable suggestions, > but it would seem that as the version I had was installed from a ppa and > although the ppa is disabled (it got that way during the upgrade) even > re-enabling it didn't allow me to reinstall vlc and then ppa-purge it. The > ppa was the videolan stable repo. Is there any way of telling the apt > database that the package details (specifically the dependencies I guess) > are not correct any more for vlc and it should reload them from the universe > repo? > > I did think of trying the snap of vlc, but that didn't work with a similar > error message. There are now two vlc packages visible in synaptic too, which > may be the result of something else I've tried.
I would start off by uninstalling it. Colin > > -- > JimP > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
