Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-19 Thread Dan Ritter
R. Ramesh wrote: > Thanks for everyone's help. I systematically went through every package and > moved them to debian version if apt allowed me to do so. At the end I only > have acroread from dmo and everything else is from debian. I removed mythtv > also to get to this point. Since this is my

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le lundi 18 octobre 2021 à 20:43 -0500, R. Ramesh a écrit  [...] > I only have acroread from dmo and everything else is from debian. I > removed mythtv also to get to this point. [...] > I do not have the same freedom for three other (debian based) > machines  [...] Hello, - Acroread from

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 18 oct 21, 20:43:45, R. Ramesh wrote: > > The best expert opinion is fairly well summed up on the Debian wiki at > > https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian > > . The advice given above is > > fairly > > blunt and matter of fact because the

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-18 Thread R. Ramesh
The best expert opinion is fairly well summed up on the Debian wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian . The advice given above is fairly blunt and matter of fact because the users and developers on this list have seen this sort of thing lots

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 16 oct 21, 06:43:23, piorunz wrote: > On 16/10/2021 06:32, R. Ramesh wrote: > > > sudo aptitude install libpostproc55=10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 > > > > Still could not install vlc because libswscale5 was also older version > > and needed to be upgraded > > > > sudo aptitude install

Unbreaking the system [WAS Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye ]

2021-10-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 02:57:13PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > Understood. Please also understand that we are users and not experts. I > understand unix/linux and general SW principles. I will use debian as I > trust this more than any other distribution. That does not mean I can learn > everything

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread R. Ramesh
On 10/16/21 2:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: R. Ramesh wrote: from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of situation like

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread Dan Ritter
R. Ramesh wrote: > from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no > desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. > deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of > situation like mine and therefore handle these

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread piorunz
On 16/10/2021 18:27, R. Ramesh wrote: What is the fix I need to do? Remove my preferences.d/multimedia for deb-multimedia? My apologies, I am not very good with apt and dependencies and this may be something straightforward. Can you give me more detail on what I need to fix? BTW, I did not

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-16 Thread R. Ramesh
On 10/16/21 12:43 AM, piorunz wrote: On 16/10/2021 06:32, R. Ramesh wrote: I was suspecting this, but did not know how to go about finding versions available vs. what is installed. As you point out my version of libpostproc55 is from debian whereas I need the newer version in deb-multimedia. I

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-15 Thread R. Ramesh
On 16/10/2021 04:52, R. Ramesh wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  libpostproc55 : Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u2) but 10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 is to be installed  libswscale5 : Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u2) but 10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 is to be installed E:

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-15 Thread piorunz
On 16/10/2021 06:32, R. Ramesh wrote: I was suspecting this, but did not know how to go about finding versions available vs. what is installed. As you point out my version of libpostproc55 is from debian whereas I need the newer version in deb-multimedia. I forced the version with this sudo

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-15 Thread piorunz
On 16/10/2021 04:52, R. Ramesh wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  libpostproc55 : Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u2) but 10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 is to be installed  libswscale5 : Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u2) but 10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 is to be installed E:

Cannot install vlc on bullseye

2021-10-15 Thread R. Ramesh
Hi,   I am trying to install vlc and I get this error n-lata [rramesh] 284 > apt -s install vlc NOTE: This is only a simulation!   apt needs root privileges for real execution.   Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,   so don't depend on the relevance to the real current