(SOLVED) No plugins found! Check your VLC installation error

[boochmaster]

Hi all,

I had vlc 2.1.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 installed by "apt-get install vlc" in /usr/bin/vlc,
it worked fine

Then I compiled and installed another version of vlc (don't remember exact version number) from source files into "/usr/local/bin/".

Then I wanted to come back to original vlc 2.1.5 and delete compiled vlc.
For this I found all files/folders of second vlc instance by

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sudo find /usr/local -iname vlc

and manually removed them by "sudo rm -rf ..."
(i didn't run "make uninstall" because I accidentally deleted source files after installation)

After this I deleted first instance of vlc:

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sudo apt-get purge vlc sudo apt-get autoremove vlc

and deleted config files

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sudo rm -rf ~/.config/vlc

At this point I thought I removed both vlc instances completely (maybe I was mistaken).
Then I installed vlc from scratch again:

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sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc

And now when I run "vlc -vv" I'm getting:

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VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5) [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - 2.1.5 Rincewind [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: Copyright © 1996-2014 the VideoLAN team [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5 [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: configured with ./configure [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: searching plug-in modules [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: loading plugins cache file /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat [0x8ad9928] main libvlc warning: cannot read /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat (No such file or directory) [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins' [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: saving plugins cache /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: plug-ins loaded: 1 modules [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: opening config file (/home/booch/.config/vlc/vlcrc) [0x8ad9928] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "ru" [0x8ad9928] main libvlc error: No plugins found! Check your VLC installation.

I don't know why but new vlc installation looks for plugins in the "/usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins" folder instead of "/usr/lib/vlc/plugins"
If I run

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export VLC_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/vlc/plugins

Then I'm getting this errors:

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booch@NAS:/usr/local$ vlc -vvv VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5) [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - 2.1.5 Rincewind [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: Copyright © 1996-2014 the VideoLAN team [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5 [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: configured with ./configure [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: searching plug-in modules [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: loading plugins cache file /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot read /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat (No such file or directory) [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins' [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: saving plugins cache /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: loading plugins cache file /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: This doesn't look like a valid plugins cache [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc/plugins' [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/text_renderer/libfreetype_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/text_renderer/libtdummy_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/audio_output/libalsa_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/audio_output/libadummy_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/audio_output/libpulse_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/audio_output/libamem_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/audio_output/libafile_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_ps_plugin.so ... [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_chroma/libi422_i420_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_chroma/libswscale_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_chroma/libi422_yuy2_sse2_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_chroma/libi422_yuy2_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_chroma/libyuy2_i420_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_chroma/libi420_rgb_sse2_plugin.so [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: saving plugins cache /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: plug-ins loaded: 1 modules [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: opening config file (/home/booch/.config/vlc/vlcrc) [0x9fbf928] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "ru" [0x9fbf928] main libvlc error: No plugins found! Check your VLC installation

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Could somebody please help me to solve this problem?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You have installed two different versions in the same directory. This won't work ever. You need to purge all files and reinstall.

[boochmaster]

But I already deleted one installation of vlc by "sudo apt-get purge vlc", then removed manually all files related to second installation of vlc from /usr/local/* folders and reinstalled vlc from scratch several times but always get same result

Looks like there are some missed files from vlc which I installed from source files but I can't figure out where i should find them
here is my find output now:

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sudo find /usr/ -iname vlc /usr/lib/vlc /usr/lib/mime/packages/vlc /usr/share/doc/vlc /usr/share/lintian/overrides/vlc /usr/share/menu/vlc /usr/share/bug/vlc /usr/share/vlc /usr/bin/vlc

as you can see there are no vlc in the /usr/local/* anymore!

[boochmaster]

I downloaded source files again and run "make uninstall" and it solved my problem. Now after reinstalling vlc it runs without errors