VLC (Videolan Client) not installable on 6.04 duo to unmet dependencies. libdbus-1-1 (>= 0.50)

[Peter Marim]

After dist-upgrade from breezy (5.10) to dapper (6.04) vlc (videolan client) cannot be installed:

root:~ # apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  vlc: Depends: libdbus-1-1 (>= 0.50) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

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A newer version of libdbus is allready installed:

root:~ # apt-get install libdbus-1-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libdbus-1-2 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

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root:~ # apt-get install libdbus-1-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package libdbus-1-1 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libdbus-1-1 has no installation candidate

[HaQDaQ (haqdaq)]

Same problem here, quite annoying because I like vlc :)

[Peter Marim (petermarim)]

You can use Totem with Xine lib instead until this is fixed, but there are also some problems with it:

https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6206

Nevertheless in my opinion totem comes not even close to the possibilities vlc offers :)

Another option would be mplayer, but currently it fails to play any video for me.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

I triggered a rebuild of vlc in Dapper on December 23rd (http://people.ubuntu.com/~lamont/buildLogs/v/vlc/0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu2/) that FTBFS on [!amd64] due to mozilla-dev screwage. That needs to be fixed in main before vlc will build successfully.