Unable to install VLC 2.08

James R McKenzie jimmckenzie at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 29 18:31:51 UTC 2013


I tried a command line install and the message below this is what I got.

Jims64BitLinuxMint15KDEDeskTop jim # 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-nox (= 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.13.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.13.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.13.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
[100]Jims64BitLinuxMint15KDEDeskTop jim # synaptic

(synaptic:3536): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(synaptic:3536): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(synaptic:3536): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed


Now What?

Any ideas?







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