Trying to Install VLC?

[GregM]

I've been trying to install VLC so I can play a WMV file and I keep getting this message



I've done my updates. What can be "broken"?

[oshunluvr]

First of all, I recommend using the latest version of VLC and not the one Ubuntu provide. VLC is updated very often and lots of things get fixed on a regular basis. If you choose to do that, these commands in a terminal will make the latest stable version available:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update

Then, so that you can see exactly is the issue, try and install VLC in the terminal so you can read the actual error messages. That error is too generic to be of any help. You either have a missing or bad dependency that VLC needs or some package installation did not complete properly. There are actually seven packages needed for VLC plus a audio backend package: vlc, vlc-data, vlc-nox, vlc-plugin-notify, vlc-plugin-samba, libvlc5, libvlccore8, and whatever audio backend works for you.

Do this is a terminal and then post back the output:

sudo apt-get install vlc

[GregM]

Here's what it said...

greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
[sudo] password for greg:
This package archive contains daily builds made from the last stable branch of the VLC media player.

This package archive is intended for testing the build process and bug fixes in impending stable releases of VLC, with view to integration into Ubuntu through stable via either the Stable Release Updates (SRU), or security updates.

You will NOT find major version updates in this archive, such as from 2.2.x to 3.0.x. If you want a newer major version of VLC, use the master-daily archive, the VideoLAN.org snap packages, or build VLC manually.

Beware that the builds are fully automated, and do not go through any quality assurance whatsoever. Functional regressions and build are relatively rare but they do happen.

Please report build breakages to the Debian/Ubuntu multimedia team.
The VideoLAN developers do not have access to the build system.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~videolan/+arc...u/stable-daily
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmprbkd5ddc/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmprbkd5ddc/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 801DF724 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmprbkd5ddc/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 801DF724: public key "Launchpad Daily Build of master branch" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK

greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.6 kB]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [3,964 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [3,960 B]
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,856 B]
Fetched 27.3 kB in 2s (12.3 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ sudo 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: libgles1-mesa (>= 7.8.1) but it is not going to be installed or
libgles1
Depends: libgles2-mesa (>= 7.8.1) but it is not going to be installed or
libgles2
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$

[oshunluvr]

What version of Kubuntu are you using? If 16.04 or 17.10 you can install this ppa and the patched versions of libgles;

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa

[GregM]

i'm using 16.04

[acheron]

If that 'apt-get update' paste is to be believed, seems you may have disabled xenial-updates and xenial-security sources.

[GregM]

It seems to have worked now

[GregM]

I installed VLC off Synaptic
Then I did my usual update routine

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

This is what happened...

greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for greg:
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libllvm4.0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdrm-common libllvm5.0 libomxil-bellagio-bin libomxil-bellagio0
The following packages will be upgraded:
libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libwayland-egl1-mesa libxatracker2 mesa-vdpau-drivers
11 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 109 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libwayland-egl1-mesa amd64 1:17.3.1-0~x~padoka0 [44.7 kB]
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libllvm5.0 amd64 1:5.0-1~gd~x [13.5 MB]
Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libegl1-mesa amd64 1:17.3.1-0~x~padoka0 [118 kB]
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri amd64 1:17.3.1-0~x~padoka0 [8,295 kB]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgbm1 amd64 1:17.3.1-0~x~padoka0 [63.3 kB]
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libxatracker2 amd64 1:17.3.1-0~x~padoka0 [1,160 kB]
Get:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 mesa-vdpau-drivers amd64 1:17.3.1-0~x~padoka0 [2,460 kB]
Fetched 25.9 MB in 9min 58s (43.2 kB/s)
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greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ sudo apt-get clean

greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libllvm4.0*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 49.3 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 246467 files and directories currently installed.)
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greg@greg-OptiPlex-990:~$