Package vlc has no installation candidate?

[yawnmoth]

I'm trying to install VLC on Ubuntu 10.04. Here's what I'm doing via the command line:

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sudo sed -i -e 's/^# \(.*multiverse\)/\1/g' /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc

Here's the output the last command gives me:

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Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package vlc is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package vlc has no installation candidate

Any ideas?

[mc2man]

try enabling universe

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searc ... ywords=vlc

[yawnmoth]

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html says multiverse is needed for 10.04 but, none-the-less, uncommenting out universe (and not multiverse) works. Maybe the page I was consulting should be updated?