New to Ubuntu, few simple questions

Jonzo · 03-23-2007, 11:04 AM

Hello, I installed Kubuntu 6.10 on my PC a week ago. So far I'm loving it, just have a few questions.

The first is about Kopete. I use it, and am loving it too. It has a lot of features I *NEED* (icon blinking when getting a message instead of popping up in the task bar, etc). This is weird.. I right-clicked someone's name the other day, and I SWEAR I saw a "View Chat History" button. All of a sudden today I look, and I can't find it. Anyone know about this? Did I somehow turn it off or something? Does it actually exist?

My second question is about installing VLC. I enabled one of the "universe" repositories (as instructions have told me to do), and tried to apt-get VLC. I keep getting this error though:

Code:

jonzo@nixbox:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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 resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1ubuntu1.1) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libiso9660-4 but it is not installable
       Depends: libtar but it is not installable
       Depends: libvcdinfo0 (> 0.7.23) but it is not installable
       Depends: libvlc0 (>= 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libwxbase2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.1.5) but it is not installable
       Depends: libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.1.5) but it is not installable
       Depends: libxosd2 (>= 2.2.13) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Can anyone help? Thanks

AceofSpades19 · 03-23-2007, 02:28 PM

instead of Kopete you could try Gaim or if your using the msn protocal kmess,I found that kopete is too basic for me. The error message basically states that you don't have the required dependencies

DJNolz83 · 03-23-2007, 05:33 PM

Might be worth trying to use synaptic to install VLC.
Worked for me.

AceofSpades19 · 03-23-2007, 05:41 PM

in ubuntu the package manager is adept

Jonzo · 03-23-2007, 09:39 PM

Whenever I download anything else with apt-get, it always gets the dependencies that it needs. So I don't see why this is giving me problems.

DJNolz83 · 03-23-2007, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonzo

Whenever I download anything else with apt-get, it always gets the dependencies that it needs. So I don't see why this is giving me problems.

This might sound really silly, but why not try apt-get 'ing a couple of the dependencies and then try re-installing VLC that way?

AceofSpades19 - yes, the package manager is adept, but synaptic is also available for Ubuntu as a handy package manager.