vlc : Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf but it is not installable
VLC from ppa for Precise depends on a package (fonts-
# cat videolan-
deb http://
deb-src http://
http://
Package: vlc
Priority: optional
Section: video
Installed-Size: 3391
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.0.3+git201210
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3+git201210
Replaces: vlc-data (<< 1.1.5), vlc-nox (<< 2.0.2)
Suggests: videolan-doc
Provides: mp3-decoder
Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf
The correct package in Precise may be "ttf-freefont".
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- Last query:
- 2012-10-05
- Last reply:
- 2012-10-05
Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : | #1 |
Try installing ttf-freefont from the respositories
sudo apt-get ttf-freefont
Then try again. If this does not work then you can get the package from the debian web site install that and try again
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sudo apt-get install ttf-freefont
Is what was meant. I suggest you contact the PPA maintainer to let them know their PPA breaks things
Doug McMahon (mc3man) said : | #3 |
fonts-freefont-ttf is a 12.10 only package in Ubuntu so the ppa needs to either adjust it's 12.04 builds or provide that package for 12.04
previously the control file had this which allowed either -
Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf | ttf-freefont,
Now it just has
Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf,
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