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I tried removing all other sources so my sources.list contains this: deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main Next I updated apt: ben:/etc/apt# apt-get update Hit http://download.videolan.org sarge/main Packag...

Thank you , kmf31, for the first thoughtful and relevant reply to this issue. I was about to give up and move on. To the OS upgrade suggestion, I can't justify the time and risk of upgrading the entire system just to run a single utility. Everything else works fine that I need to use, and I am prod...

Still waiting for a response to this: Would you care to describe what happens exactly and in particularly how exactly you tried ? :lol: With that amount of information you provide (or more precisely you do not provide) one does not even know if you properly executed these instructions. But okay this...

Would you care to describe what happens exactly and in particularly how exactly you tried ? :lol: With that amount of information you provide (or more precisely you do not provide) one does not even know if you properly executed these instructions. But okay this is simply an advice and you do as yo...

The instructions at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html describe a simple way to install vlc on sarge but they do not work. Would anyone care to address that?

I'm just looking for some straight answers here. Exactly which distros/versions of Linux are supported by VLC? I'm using debian sarge, which is listed as a supported (or at least available) platform on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html. However, following the installation instructions...

sarge is the old debian stable. Etch is the new debian stable that you should use and a fairly recent VLC is packaged in it without need to add extra repository. Xtophe, I followed the instructions at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html to install VLC on sarge but it doesn't work as I'...

It would seem to be the case that the VLC download page for Debian needs to be corrected, since the instructions for Sarge appear to be obsolete/incorrect.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html

So I seem to have some apt sources that have a broken vlc package as far as Debian Sarge is concerned. I'm wondering where I could find an older source that would have a version of vlc that worked on Sarge.

When I said vlc was in sarge, I meant that it was in the sarge repositories. Comment out the Videolan repositories, do an "apt-get update", then "apt-get install vlc". And honestly, you should be upgrading to debian etch. I did exactly what you said and still got this: ben:/etc/...

I'm using debian sarge, which is listed as a supported (or at least available ) platform on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html. Vlc is not installed on my system and "apt-get install vlc" fails as such: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packa...

and isn't vlc in sarge already? see http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=vlc&searchon=names&subword=1&version=oldstable&release=all try commenting out those videolan repositories unless you want dvd decryption. A "locate vlc" on my system returned...

Following the instructions on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html, I tried to get VLC: 1. I added these lines to /etc/apt/sources: deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main 2. I ran "apt-get u...