knowing all dependencies

**susiriss** · May 28th, 2008

Aah I see.. Thanks joshedmonds and kpkeerthi. I guess this should work even if I am yet to try this out.

Thanks very much guys !

**Nikitas350** · May 28th, 2008

Try to use synaptic in order to fix the problem with vlc. Go to system ---> administration ----> synaptic package manager. Select custom filters (left and down) and then go to broken packages. Select them all and mark them for removal. Then click to the apply button. Then you can install again vlc and you will be able to "find" it on synaptic. Good luck....

**sayakb** · May 28th, 2008

Alternatively, you could try

Code:

sudo apt-get install -f

from the terminal.

**susiriss** · May 29th, 2008

Hello,
The problem was even if I enabled all repositories in my PC (without Internet) I cannot see VLC listed there. The PC I make downloads from is not an Ubuntu one. I'll try with the method Nikitas350 mentioned last.

Thanks!

**susiriss** · May 30th, 2008

If I remove the broken vlc package then it is still there in the Synaptic. However, when I try to select it for install to generate the download script as Nikitas350 said, the Synaptic doesn't allow to do so and displays an error message.

???????

**Nikitas350** · May 31st, 2008

What error message? Can you post it here? Also you can change easily the script to work in windows using this way
1) Download wget for windows from this link http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/cgi-bi...=wget/wget.exe
2) Delete the first line of the script
3) Replace "wget" to "wget.exe" (in the script)
4) Add ".bat" in the end of the filename of your script and put it on the directory you have wget.
Now it should run in windows...

**lipidicman** · June 2nd, 2008

So. I have been using aptoncd. However the latest CD I created requires the previous one to install. Why might this be? I told my internet connected machine to make an aptonCD and selected all packages. However it will not install unless I have added the previous cd (one I made before adding a few wanted packages) to the sources on my fresh Hardy at home (with no internet)

Hope that is clear, and thanks in advance

**susiriss** · June 3rd, 2008

Hi Nikitas350,

This is the error message I'm getting.

Code:

Could not mark all packages for installation or upgrade

The following packages have unresolved dependencies. Make sure that all required repositories are added and enabled in the preferences.

vlc:

Package vlc has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list

I have enabled all the repositories. Note that this error messages come from my PC (without Internet )

**Nikitas350** · June 4th, 2008

Try the folowing commands:
sudo aptitude remove -f vlc
sudo dpkg --configure -a
Then try to install again vlc. If this fails post the output of the command "gedit /etc/apt/sources.list" ...