VLC uninstalable in breezy

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Take a look at a comment at https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/bugs/1138
that I posted. Do not expect the version of VLC in Hoary to ever be
installable on Breezy. The solution would be to put the current
Debian-unstable version into Breezy, but you will have to wait quite some
time for that, because at this moment, VLC is not installable on all
architectures of Debian-unstable, either.

I wanted to install VLC because it works so great on Mac OS X, but after
jumping through a lot of hoops to install it on Breezy-PowerPC, I am
thouroughly disappointed with VLC's functionality there. I found that
mplayer is far superior on Breezy, which was a big surprise to me. Now
I'll use VLC on OS X, and mplayer on Breezy.

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:27:30 +0200, Nacho Más wrote:

> Package: vlc
> Severity: important
> Tags: experimental
> 
> Hi!
> Could you please try to pack vlc with the latest dbus and libhal?... I
> have tried to compile it from source and have not succeeded. I run into
> circular dependencies that I cannot solve and installing dbus-1 would
> mean breaking many of the applications that are already compiled for
> libdbus-1.1. I just can't install vlc at all, either from source or
> binary in my system, which is an up-to-date breezy
> 
> Thanks!
> /nacho