[ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

[Colin Law]

On 25 June 2018 at 20:33, Jim Price <d1version at 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?
>
> I did think of trying the snap of vlc, but that didn't work with a similar
> error message. There are now two vlc packages visible in synaptic too, which
> may be the result of something else I've tried.

I would start off by uninstalling it.

Colin

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