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vlc asks for wxvlc, and wxvlc asks for vlc-isn't this crazy?
Posted: 12 Apr 2006 12:30
by zugu
The fact is my box runs Ubuntu 5.10 and has no internet access. So I just can't "apt-get install vlc". Instead, I had to manually download deb packages from packages.ubuntu.com (vlc and its dependencies) on another machine.
However, when I try to install vlc, it says that wxvlc is not installed/configured. So I dpkg -i wxvlc. But wxvlc says that it cannot be installed, as vlc is not installed.
This is driving me crazy. Give me some ideas, please.
Posted: 12 Apr 2006 14:56
by Gujs
Just do dpkg -i vlc_package wxvlc_package
Posted: 12 Apr 2006 15:07
by zugu
Thank you.
Re:
Posted: 15 Sep 2007 10:44
by abrakatabra
zugu is the problem solved?
Re: vlc asks for wxvlc, and wxvlc asks for vlc-isn't this crazy?
Posted: 15 Sep 2007 15:45
by ODJ
I experience a similar problem. When i try to install VLC, i'm told that both vlc and wxvlc are damaged. It then goes on to inform me 8 new packages will be installed (which they never are). After that, i am informed both vlc and wxvlc have dependencies. But all the packages needed to resolve those dependencies are virtual packages. The suggested solution is to "keep vlc and wxvlc in their current versions (not installed)"..
....I am at a loss..
(running Debian 4.0, 2.6.21-2-486)
Re: vlc asks for wxvlc, and wxvlc asks for vlc-isn't this crazy?
Posted: 15 Sep 2007 23:09
by abrakatabra
sudo dpkg -i vlc wxvlc
if both files are in the same directory( the one the terminal at the time of your typing is I suppose )
is the line of command(we will type using terminal) that will allegedly solve the problem(called circular dependency), according to a thread in ubuntu foruns.
Re: vlc asks for wxvlc, and wxvlc asks for vlc-isn't this crazy?
Posted: 16 Sep 2007 03:27
by funman
or you can remove wxvlc which is empty and present only for upgrades from older versions
Re: vlc asks for wxvlc, and wxvlc asks for vlc-isn't this crazy?
Posted: 19 Sep 2007 18:10
by abrakatabra
sudo dpkg -i vlc wxvlc
if both files are in the same directory( the one the terminal at the time of your typing is I suppose )
is the line of command(we will type using terminal) that will allegedly solve the problem(called circular dependency), according to a thread in ubuntu foruns.
No. vlc is "unconfigured. Install vlc-ALSA plugin" by terminal
sudo dpkg -i vlc wxvlc vlc-ALSA "problems solved, stable vlc and system" by abrakatabra