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I see that on my Ubuntu 12.04lts machine, I get the same updates every time. The updates are for vlc player. It repeats at least once a day. Is something stuck or does it do that. I have installed vlc to the latest version for linux via commands I found on ask ubuntu that I have on terminal. O, and I see no other updates, but these.

Orosjopie
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Delete all the four repositories,then uninstall existing vlc by running,

sudo apt-get purge vlc

and then run the below commands on terminal to install a vlc stable release,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
Avinash Raj
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  • it give me problems, I can't put vlc back. it says: The following packages have unmet dependencies: vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.8+git20131130+r49148+4+5~ubuntu12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.8+git20131130+r49148+4+5~ubuntu12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.8+git20131130+r49148+4+5~ubuntu12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. – Orosjopie Dec 01 '13 at 07:28
  • try `sudo apt-get -f install` – Avinash Raj Dec 01 '13 at 07:29
  • Thanks, I just tried it, but does nothing. It says:0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. – Orosjopie Dec 01 '13 at 08:17
  • run `sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-nox` – Avinash Raj Dec 01 '13 at 08:21
  • Thanks, but I get this when I run the command suggested: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. – Orosjopie Dec 01 '13 at 09:15
  • try these commands on terminal `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install build-essential` then `sudo apt-get install vlc` – Avinash Raj Dec 01 '13 at 13:57
  • I've tried it and it still won't work, I get: The following packages have unmet dependencies: vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.8+git20131130+r49148+4+5~ubuntu12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.8+git20131130+r49148+4+5~ubuntu12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.8+git20131130+r49148+4+5~ubuntu12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. – Orosjopie Dec 01 '13 at 15:08
  • `sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-nox libvlccore5 vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse` – Avinash Raj Dec 01 '13 at 15:19
  • I've tried it, but still get the same error as above. Any other way to get the broken packages out of the way or to get them fixed first so that I can install vlc without any problems? – Orosjopie Dec 01 '13 at 20:54
  • See this http://askubuntu.com/questions/122105/how-do-i-locate-and-remove-broken-packages-that-i-have-installed – Avinash Raj Dec 02 '13 at 02:15