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vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu14.04.1) but 2.1.4-0ubuntu14.04.1 is to be installed

     Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15) but 2.19-0ubuntu6 is to be installed
     Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1) but 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.2 is to be installed
     Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but 1:4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
     Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0) but 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2ubuntu4 is to be installed
     Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0) but 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2ubuntu4 is to be installed
     Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) but 4.8.2-19ubuntu1 is to be installed
     Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3) but 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1 is to be installed

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

    audacious: Depends: libaudclient2 (= 3.4.3-1) but 3.4.3-1 is to be installed
           Depends: libaudcore1 (= 3.4.3-1) but 3.4.3-1 is to be installed
David Foerster
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The following is the code which I used to install vlc on my ubuntu 14.04:

Removing old vlc and its packages: sudo apt-get purge vlc vlc-nox gstreamer1.0-libav:i386 libavcodec-extra-54:i386 libavformat54:i386 libopus0:i386

Adding architecture: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Then install vlc: sudo apt-get install vlc

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ramsudharsan
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It means you have unmet dependencies for a lot of software that is already installed. Run "sudo apt-get -f install" to fix that and allow the installation of more software

sbergeron
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  • simiris@simiris:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. and after that – Simiris Pandelis Jul 14 '14 at 18:39
  • sudo apt-get install audacious 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 situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: – Simiris Pandelis Jul 14 '14 at 18:40
  • audacious : Depends: audacious-plugins (>= 3.4.3) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. – Simiris Pandelis Jul 14 '14 at 18:40
  • run "sudo apt-get install audacious-plugins" – sbergeron Jul 14 '14 at 18:41
  • the same sbegeron, thanks but nothing works... – Simiris Pandelis Jul 14 '14 at 18:44
  • thanks to http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.xubuntu.user/6690 it worked with me: finally worked for me sudo apt-get install aptitude sudo aptitude install vlc --> Y --> Y – Simiris Pandelis Jul 16 '14 at 00:37
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See if this helps:

sudo apt-get purge vlc vlc-nox

sudo apt-get install vlc

Let us know.

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I had nearly the exact same package dependency problems and figured out wine installed packeges for i386 architecture on my i686 system. Removing this packages

  • gstreamer1.0-libav:i386
  • libavcodec-extra-54:i386
  • libavformat54:i386
  • libopus0:i386

solved my problem and I was able to install vlc again using apt-get.

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wolf
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I also had same problem and it got resolved after I ran
sudo apt-get purge vlc vlc-nox
--> This has Purged configuration files for earlier installed vlc

later it got installed after said dependencies installed ..with below command
sudo apt-get install libpostproc52 vlc-nox vlc

Hope this helps.

Subbarayudu A.

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aptitude is able to resolve the dependency problem by running:

sudo aptitude install vlc

The actual conflict is the package libpostproc-extra-52, which can be resolved by running

sudo apt-get purge libpostproc-extra-52
sudo apt-get install vlc
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