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Posted: **Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:22 pm**

Currently got VLC 0.8.6 running under 7.10, but I want to upgrade to 1.0.2, but their instruction don't appear to work:

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10,
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04
Graphical way

Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). In Settings -> Repositories, make sure you have a "universe" repository activated.

Search for vlc and install it. You should also install vlc-plugin-esd, mozilla-plugin-vlc (and libdvdcss2).
Command line way

You need to check that a "universe" mirror is listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc

Even though I thought I'd added the required Universe to my repository I get told some files can't be found:

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john@new-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
vlc is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  qstat
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed
  mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-plugin-esd
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 42.9kB of archives.
After unpacking 188kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-plugin-esd
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/universe mozilla-plugin-vlc 0.8.6.release.c-0ubuntu5.2
  404 Not Found
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/universe mozilla-plugin-vlc 0.8.6.release.c-0ubuntu5.2
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/universe vlc-plugin-esd 0.8.6.release.c-0ubuntu5.2
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vlc/mozilla-plugin-vlc_0.8.6.release.c-0ubuntu5.2_i386.deb  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vlc/vlc-plugin-esd_0.8.6.release.c-0ubuntu5.2_i386.deb  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

I suspect - as it tells me vlc is up to date - that I'm not looking at the right "universe" repository.

Any help (to be looking at a correct universe repository) much appreciated.

DH

PS my sources.list

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## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy restricted main universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# deb http://blognux.free.fr/debian unstable main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security restricted main multiverse universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security restricted main multiverse universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates restricted main multiverse universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates restricted main multiverse universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports restricted main multiverse universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports restricted main multiverse universe
# deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates universe

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:57 pm**

Philip Johnsson has a launchpad PPA thingy... but be warned, there are some other apps in there so you might end up with upgrades you don't want, mostly photo and multimedia stuff. (I use most of it and don't have problems... in fact I have fewer problems than I did with the "stable" jaunty versions.)

http://ppa.launchpad.net/philip5 for a nosey.

for your sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/philip5/extra/ubuntu jaunty main

@philip_johnsson twitter.

No affiliation other than finding this when looking for cutting-edge digikam packages...

Posted: **Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:20 am**

Nice one - will investigate further.

Really should just upgrade to Jaunty (or now wait for Karmic?) but it requires some juggling of my various HDs (as this is a zero budget upgrade - I'm shifting data around between various 40, 80 and 120GB HDs to keep all 3 of my desktop PCs operational)

Posted: **Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:56 am**

If you haven't already since editing your sources.list, you may need to do an "apt-get update" before the "apt-get install <xyz>"

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