Fwd: Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Apologies to Andrei -- inadvertently sent by mail: Original Message Subject: Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:16:47 +0100 From: Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org To: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com On 09/12/14 00:04, Andrei

Re: Fwd: Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 09 dec 14, 10:28:01, Tony van der Hoff wrote: tony@tony-fr:~$ sudo apt-cache policy [sudo] password for tony: Note: apt-cache doesn't require root privileges, since it only provides information Package files: 100 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports/main amd64

Re: Fwd: Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thanks very much for the explanation, Anderei, On 09/12/14 10:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I can't spot anything wrong in here. A bigger hammer approach would be to do this apt-get install -t wheezy-backports vlc vlc-nox libvlccore7 If this works it might be worth reporting it to the

Re: Fwd: Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 09 dec 14, 11:06:35, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I've tried adding those further depends onto the apt-get line, but it simply fails on further dependencies, eventually failing on Package libavcodec-extra-54 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that

Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I'm trying to install a recent VLC on my wheezy box, but: root@tony-fr:~# apt-get -t wheezy-backports 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

Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-08 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/08/2014 11:30 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a recent VLC on my wheezy box, but: root@tony-fr:~# apt-get -t wheezy-backports install vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed.

Re: Failed to install VLC from wheezy backports

2014-12-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 dec 14, 17:30:44, Tony van der Hoff wrote: root@tony-fr:~# apt-get -t wheezy-backports 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