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Package vlc has no installation candidate?

Posted: 16 May 2010 00:55
by 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?

Re: Package vlc has no installation candidate?

Posted: 16 May 2010 05:21
by mc2man

Re: Package vlc has no installation candidate?

Posted: 16 May 2010 15:43
by 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?