Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-05-01 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 1 May 2022 15:35:27 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 10:19:25PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > [...] > > > The hardware clock thought it was in 2005-01-01 > > Uh, oh. This looks as if your clock's battery is dying. > > Cheers Thank you Tomas, I thought that; will replace it.

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-05-01 Thread tomas
On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 10:19:25PM +1000, Charlie wrote: [...] > The hardware clock thought it was in 2005-01-01 Uh, oh. This looks as if your clock's battery is dying. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-05-01 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 1 May 2022 11:18:23 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 03:13:06PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > > > > > > Thank you for that update. I will give your sources list a try because > > my new Asus desktop install won't accept the sources list from my > > working

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-05-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 03:13:06PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > > > Thank you for that update. I will give your sources list a try because > my new Asus desktop install won't accept the sources list from my > working laptop: > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib > >

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:45:01 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: > after editing it the unhashed line in my /etc/apt/sources.list are: > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main > deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main > > deb

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:45:01 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: > and all seems to be fine and dandy. Good to hear. A bit of fine tuning: Unless you want the source for any package(s), comment out the deb-src lines. Comment in the deb-src lines only for packages that interest you. You have two

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
after editing it the unhashed line in my /etc/apt/sources.list are: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main deb-src

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
I had just installed Debian 11 onto a pen drive and as soon as I connected my computer to the Internet I started having such problems, which makes me wonder if the original installation disk was OK. lbrtchx

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 09:51:47PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 4/28/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Run these commands for additional information: > > > > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > apt policy vlc > > # date; cat /etc/apt/sources.list > Fri 29 Apr 2022 09:44:06 PM CDT > [...] > deb

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
# apt-add-repository -bash: apt-add-repository: command not found #

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 4/28/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Run these commands for additional information: > > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > apt policy vlc # date; cat /etc/apt/sources.list Fri 29 Apr 2022 09:44:06 PM CDT # deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.2.0 lxde 2021-12-18T12:41]/ bullseye main #deb

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 05:23:57 +0100 (BST) Tim Woodall wrote: > > (And why do I have two signal repos???) > > > > Do you? Isn't it the Release file and then the Packages file that are > fetched? Presumably you're up to date on the others (except vivaldi) Actually, I don't. I misread the

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-28 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:27:11 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: # time apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done Odd. I would think you would show a few more repos. I see:

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:27:11 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: > # time apt-get update > Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security > InRelease Reading package lists... Done > > real 0m0.955s > user 0m0.395s > sys 0m0.236s Odd. I would think you would show a few more

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
e, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > > E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate Run these commands for additional information: cat /etc/apt/sources.list apt policy vlc

E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-28 Thread Albretch Mueller
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Package vlc is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'vlc' has