Savvas Radevic wrote:
> Works fine here, your mileage may vary. :)
> 
> sudo aptitude purge libavcodec52 libavutil-unstripped-49 libavformat52 libavformat-unstripped-52 libavdevice-unstripped-52 libavfilter-unstripped-0 vlc vlc-nox ffmpeg

Is this necessary? A good thing to do?

$ sudo aptitude purge libavcodec52 libavutil-unstripped-49 libavformat52
libavformat-unstripped-52 libavdevice-unstripped-52
libavfilter-unstripped-0 vlc vlc-nox ffmpeg
[sudo] password for mp:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  ffmpeg2theora gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libavcodec-unstripped-52
libavdevice52 libpostproc51 libswscale0
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libavformat52{p} libavutil-unstripped-49{p} libdvbpsi4{u}
libiso9660-5{u} liblua5.1-0{u} libsdl-image1.2{u} libtar{u}
  libvcdinfo0{u} libvlc2{u} libvlccore0{u} vlc{p} vlc-data{u} vlc-nox{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 13 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 32.0MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libswscale0: Depends: libavutil49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303) but it is not
installable or
                        libavutil-unstripped-49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303) but
it is not installable
               Depends: libavutil49 (< 3:0.svn20090303-99) but it is not
installable or
                        libavutil-unstripped-49 (< 3:0.svn20090303-99)
but it is not installable
  libpostproc51: Depends: libavutil49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303) but it is not
installable or
                          libavutil-unstripped-49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303)
but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavutil49 (< 3:0.svn20090303-99) but it is
not installable or
                          libavutil-unstripped-49 (< 3:0.svn20090303-99)
but it is not installable
  libavcodec-unstripped-52: Depends: libavutil-unstripped-49 (>=
3:0.svn20090303) but it is not installable
                            Depends: libavutil-unstripped-49 (<
3:0.svn20090303-99) but it is not installable
  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1)
but it is not installable or
                                 libavformat-unstripped-52 (>=
3:0.svn20090303-1) but it is not installable
                        Depends: libavutil49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303-1) but
it is not installable or
                                 libavutil-unstripped-49 (>=
3:0.svn20090303-1) but it is not installable
  ffmpeg2theora: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 3:0.svn20081101-1) but it is
not installable or
                          libavformat-unstripped-52 (>=
3:0.svn20081101-1) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavutil49 (>= 3:0.svn20081101-1) but it is
not installable or
                          libavutil-unstripped-49 (>= 3:0.svn20081101-1)
but it is not installable
  libavdevice52: Depends: libavformat52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303) but it is
not installable or
                          libavformat-unstripped-52 (>= 3:0.svn20090303)
but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavformat52 (< 3:0.svn20090303-99) but it is
not installable or
                          libavformat-unstripped-52 (<
3:0.svn20090303-99) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavutil49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303) but it is not
installable or
                          libavutil-unstripped-49 (>= 3:0.svn20090303)
but it is not installable
                 Depends: libavutil49 (< 3:0.svn20090303-99) but it is
not installable or
                          libavutil-unstripped-49 (< 3:0.svn20090303-99)
but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
ffmpeg2theora
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
k9copy
libavcodec-unstripped-52
libavdevice52
libmjpegtools-1.9
libquicktime1
mjpegtools

Install the following packages:
libavutil49 [3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 (jaunty)]

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
ubuntu-restricted-extras recommends gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
ubuntu-restricted-extras recommends gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
ubuntu-restricted-extras recommends libavcodec-unstripped-52
Score is -1378

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libavutil49{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  dvdauthor{u} exiv2{u} ffmpeg2theora{a} gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg{a}
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse{a} k9copy{a}
  kde-icons-oxygen{u} kdebase-runtime{u} kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4{u}
kdebase-runtime-data{u} kdebase-runtime-data-common{u}
  kdelibs-bin{u} kdelibs5{u} kdelibs5-data{u} khelpcenter4{u}
libamrnb3{u} libamrwb3{u} libavcodec-unstripped-52{a} libavdevice52{a}
  libavformat52{p} libavutil-unstripped-49{p} libboost-regex1.34.1{u}
libclucene0ldbl{u} libdvbpsi4{u} libebml0{u} libexiv2-5{u}
  libiso9660-5{u} liblua5.1-0{u} liblzo2-2{u} libmatroska0{u}
libmjpegtools-1.9{a} libpq5{u} libqt4-svg{u} libquicktime1{a}
  librasqal1{u} librdf0{u} libsdl-image1.2{u} libsoprano4{u}
libstreamanalyzer0{u} libstreams0{u} libtar{u} libvcdinfo0{u}
  libvlc2{u} libvlccore0{u} mencoder{u} mjpegtools{a} mkvtoolnix{u}
redland-utils{u} soprano-daemon{u} twolame{u} vamps{u} vlc{p}
  vlc-data{u} vlc-nox{p}
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 54 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 89.7kB of archives. After unpacking 172MB will be freed.


> sudo aptitude update
> sudo aptitude install vlc ffmpeg
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