Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-26 Thread Colin Law
On 25 June 2018 at 22:07, Jim Price wrote: > ... > Lesson learned - don't just delete PPAs which have been disabled by a > dist-upgrade. That's true, but in fact the better lesson is to purge ppas before upgrading and then put them back again. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-25 Thread Jim Price
Unfortunately uninstalling it just gave errors, maybe because the PPA wasn't available in the same Ubuntu version as it was prior to the upgrade. Anyway, after somewhat more playing around I figured out that after the upgrade I had removed the PPA without taking a note of it, so that could

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-25 Thread Liam Proven
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 at 21:33, Jim Price 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. I think you need to force-uninstall it. Here are some pointers:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-25 Thread William Anderson
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:33 PM Jim Price 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 June 2018 at 20:33, Jim Price 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

[ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-25 Thread Jim Price
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