VLC broken after todays update, non reinstallable. SOLVED

[Member dsteele27]

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Here it is:

$ inxi -r
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye/ bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
3: deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ bullseye non-free main
4: deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ testing main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main

[Member dsteele27]

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apt-cache policy vlc
vlc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:3.0.17.3-dmo2
Version table:
1:3.0.17.3-dmo2 500
500 http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing/main amd64 Packages
1:3.0.16-dmo1 500
500 http://www.deb-multimedia.org bullseye/main amd64 Packages
3.0.16-1.0nosystemd1 500
500 http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye bullseye/nosystemd amd64 Packages
3.0.16-1 500
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages

[Moderator caprea]

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So why is your deb.multimedia repos enabled, even worse also for testing?

sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list

Look for these lines

# Multimedia Stable and Testing
# Use to install libdvdcss2 and codecs.
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main non-free

# Debian Bullseye/Stable
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org bullseye main non-free

Comment the line for http://www.deb-multimedia.org out with a #
like it is shown above.
Then
sudo apt update
try again to install vlc

Edit: Practically, the repos of deb.multimedia are only needed to install particular non-free codecs for playing DVDs.
When this is done with the “Package Installer” from control-centre they get activated and deactivated automatically again afterwards.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by caprea.

[Member dsteele27]

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That worked. Thank you very much!

[Member PPC]

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General tips (already mentioned on this thread):
– don’t post on closed Threads (marked as solved)
– if you have a problem don’t post on a Thread that reports a similar problem – because, well, you can have similar symptoms with “different health problems”- what works in one case may not work in another…
– DO NOT MESS WITH THE REPOS – you can end up with a frankendebian…

P.

[Member dsteele27]

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Points well taken by this newbie. Thank you.

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