Hello René, I'm not convinced by your explaination. I don't encounter the problem when I try to upgrade vlc: It seems that libreoffice is now linked to KDE4 in some way...
Regards, Fabien # apt-get install --reinstall vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcolamd2.7.1 lp-solve libhttp-access2-ruby1.8 libreoffice-calc libreoffice-ogltrans libxtrap6 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libdvbpsi7 libtar0 libxcb-keysyms1 mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse vlc-plugin-svg vlc-plugin-svgalib vlc-plugin-zvbi The following packages will be REMOVED: libtar The following NEW packages will be installed: libdvbpsi7 libtar0 The following packages will be upgraded: libxcb-keysyms1 mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse vlc-plugin-svg vlc-plugin-svgalib vlc-plugin-zvbi 9 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1434 not upgraded. Need to get 4814kB of archives. After this operation, 377kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

