On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:33 PM 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?
There's a few different things you could try, but you could try these steps (carefully, or NOT AT ALL if you're not 100% sure what you're doing): # this is from askubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/a/148968 # look at what PPAs you have installed, and look for # one with VLC in the name for APT in $(find /etc/apt/ -name \*.list); do \ grep -o "^deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/[a-z0-9\-]\+/[a-z0-9\-]\+"; ${APT} \ | while read ENTRY ; do USER=`echo ${ENTRY} | cut -d/ -f4`; \ PPA=$(echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f5); echo ppa:${USER}/${PPA}; \ done; done | grep -i vlc # If you get an output from the above like "ppa:vlc/vlc", then # let's remove that PPA repo apt-add-repository -r ppa:vlc/vlc # change ppa:vlc/vlc for whatever PPA you got from that search # press RETURN or ENTER to remove the PPA # purge all VLC packages (this will purge EVERY package # with a name starting with the letters vlc) apt-get purge $(dpkg -l vlc\* | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}') # then let's make doubly sure universe is there apt-add-repository -r universe apt-get -qq update apt-add-repository universe apt-get -qq update # then let's install your package apt-get install vlc-nox # (or whatever you're trying to install) If any of that doesn't make sense, DON'T RUN IT, but hopefully it'll put you in the right direction. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
