VLC installation problem

[Guest]

When I try to install vlc by:

sudo apt-get install vlc

it shows:

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 (= 1.1.4-1ubuntu1.4) but it is not going to be installed
    Depends: libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.10) but it is not installable
    Depends: libtar but it is not installable
    Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.1.4-1ubuntu1.4) but it is not going to be installed
    Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.1.4-1ubuntu1.4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

what can I do?

[Telengard]

Re: VLC installation problem

I don't know what the problem might be, but I'm a little curious to know what happens if you try this.

aptitude why-not vlc-nox

[rfakhrai]

Re: VLC installation problem

did you do a

sudo apt-get update

before the install command?

[Guest]

Re: VLC installation problem

Thanks rfakhrai... problemo solved...

sorry Telengard, I dont have aptitude package installed...

[Telengard]

Re: VLC installation problem

sorry Telengard, I dont have aptitude package installed...

I thought it was installed on all versions of Kubuntu? Aptitude has been part of the APT system for a long time, and was the default package selector when I last used Debian. Maybe Ubuntu is stripping it out in favor of apt-get?

[rfakhrai]

Re: VLC installation problem

simple fix. glad it did it!

mark it as [solved] if you could.