Installing VLC Media Player on the Eee
As much as I don’t like to install stuff on the Eee to make sure I don’t use up the already limited memory on it, the limitations with the software bundled with the Eee leave me no choice sometimes. Case in point: SMPlayer, the built in video player on the Eee, after some time, does not play audio. The Eee plays mp3s and other sound files alright; it doesn’t seem to be a soundcard issue. One day I just got pissed off with SMPlayer mysteriously refusing to play audio after an hour or two. I decided to just install VLC on my Eee. Besides, VLC is my default media player on my XP desktop, why shouldn’t I not install this open-source beauty on my Eee? And guess what: it works beautifully.
So how do we install the VLC Media Player on the Eee’s default Xandros Linux OS? Since Xandros is derived from Debian—a free operating system that can be downloaded though cable or broadband internet connection, it shouldn’t be hard to install the Debian version of VLC onto the Eee. I actually did the installation via a terminal window, and these are the steps I took:
- Open up a terminal window (Ctrl + Alt + T in simple mode)
- Type in sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list to open up the list of available repositories.
- Add these repositories to the list:
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
Update: the above source no longer seems to have VLC. Put in the below source instead. Thanks to Eighty80 for the info.
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
- Then do Ctrl + X to exit the repositories list, and Y to save the list
- You should be taken back to the main terminal screen. Now type in sudo apt-get update to refresh and download the latest software packages from your repositories. This might take a while.
- After the software packages have been downloaded, you should now enter sudo apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2
And that would be it. After the necessary software has been downloaded and installed, you should be able to see the VLC icon under Applications > Multimedia. Enjoy!
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
After installing, be sure to remove those repositories from /etc/apt/sources.list
and then run again
sudo apt-get updateto make sure you don’t mess up your Xandros installation with incompatible updates.January 4th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
[...] How to enable advanced mode: Enabling Advanced Desktop Mode [EeeUser Wiki Home] Installing VLC My Asus Eee PC
January 6th, 2008 at 4:54 am
if you didn’t intend to add an external dvd drive, the libdvdcss2 shouldn’t be necessary, isn’t it?
vlc is also available in debian repositories, though libdvdcss2 might not (not sure).
January 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I tried this and well to say the least this didn’t work at all… followed this step by step… any suggestions????
mobile guy
black asus eee pc 701 4g surf
January 8th, 2008 at 4:04 am
This doesn’t seem to be working for me, I get to the last stage and the EEE reports,
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
E: Couldn’t find package vlc
Any ideas?
January 8th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I am also getting the same error as the previous fellow. Anyone know what’s up?
January 8th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
The current videolan.org site doesn’t have binaries for “sarge”, just “sid”, the unstable testing version of Debian. Not sure why sarge went away.
January 8th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
[...] free to read the rest of his walkthrough at My Asus Eee PC. On a side note, the VLC player has proven capable of playing nearly any media file out there, and [...]
January 8th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I still had trouble getting VLC to work but followed the advice at the above website and all is good.
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
added: deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
saved file
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
January 9th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Cheers for the guide.
Worth noting that multicast isn’t enabled in the kernel so multicast joins aren’t sent, but performance is fine if you force traffic to it.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Eighty80 thanks for the additional information. Your insight worked in my case
January 26th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Yeah dose this version of VLC play MKV’s
January 31st, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I’m sure this is a noob question, but I’m at the get update step, and it doesn’t seem to be able to completely download the packages. For example I get lines that say:
Get: 3 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable Release [58.2kb]
Ign ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable Release
Err ftp://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg
Could not connect data socket, connection timed out
I’m assuming the packets that show the file size are downloaded, and those that show ‘err’ aren’t? So do I just try and try again to update? Is it purely an internet connection timeout?
February 1st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
The site ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org doesn’t work anymore. Update would be great.
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I used http://http.us.debian.org yesterday and now have VLC up and running
February 8th, 2008 at 12:45 am
can someone pls give me a updatet link/code for the list file ? apt-get update doesn`t work with these
February 16th, 2008 at 12:02 am
still doesn’t work. anyone
February 20th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
It appears that I successfully installed VLC using NOOB’s: http://http.us.debian.org but being a noob myself I don’t know where to find vlc to launch it. Where is application > multimedia???
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:08 am
The site for the second line is always down. I used this second line in sources.list instead and got VLC installed:
deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
March 13th, 2008 at 8:31 am
total newbie. i put in the ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org etc. etc. and I am running the sudo apt-get update. It has done some, failed to do some, and now it’s been stuck for a good few minutes on “Get:9 ftp://ftp.uk.devia.org stable/contrib Packages [71.6 kb] 3% [9 Packages 0/71.6kb 0%]”
It’s just stuck, trying over and over, connection timing out. How do I make this STOP without crashing something? Do I just close the Ctrl + Alt + T window? Do I just wait it out?
Thanks in advance. I hope I provided all the necessary info.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Thanks this last one ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian worked fine for me!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
the nl site works and i installed vlc w/o the css since i was always getting this:
package libdvdcss2 is not avilable, 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 libdvdcssss2 has no installation candidate
otherwise, vlc was installed. not sure where app > multi is but i just open with on a video file. all good -thanks
April 5th, 2008 at 5:25 am
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April 9th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I have an ASUS EEE 4G (701). I had to use
“ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian” to make this work. Installed without “libdvdcss2″, and that worked fine. Under “PLAY” the Video Manager icon opens VLC.
BUT: I do not get sound from my 3GP-files!! The EEE plays sound on other files (like the EEE-comercial present on the machine).
Any ideas?
April 16th, 2008 at 12:37 am
I just bought an eee, and I have no idea what you’re talking about. I just want to install vlc. Can anyone help me? thx
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 am
Can anyone help me?
Just bought Eee PC 900 and wanted to instal vlc player…
But now, none of the four command links work. Which means:
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian
and ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
does not work at all…
any more links anyone can provide me?
I want to install vlc player so much
May 25th, 2008 at 1:58 am
I had to use a mirror to get it work.
deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
May 27th, 2008 at 1:45 am
I have got this working as a complete newbie but with the US address
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
Maybe obvious to others, but I was having trouble making the change to the sources list stick until found out you have to press return after Y for Yes to save it.
I can’t find the app on my eee but VLC is now the default player for WMV files.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:03 am
At first vlc would not install on my eee pc 900 using
sudo apt-get install vlc
I was getting lots of depends.
I had to do:
sudo apt-get -f install
then: Y
then:
sudo apt-get install vlc
now it works
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
For some reason, the sources.lst file is named sources.list in xandros.
.. the only thing xandros has going for it is the short boot time.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
After a lot of trials and tribulations I finally managed to get it installed. Changes from the original article:
1) enter the following repository in sources.list
“deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free”
(without the double quotes)
2) type “sudo apt-get install vlc” (without the double quotes)
without the libdvdcss2 as mentioned in the original article.
3) VLC successfully installed in Applications->Multimedia in full desktop mode.
4) After installation, remove the respository from sources.list
July 20th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Here’s something on full desktop mode for those looking for it…
http://eeesite.net/2007/11/eee-pc-enabling-full-desktop-mode.html
July 24th, 2008 at 4:48 am
You need to do a “sudo bash” to give you permission to run and access commands, after reading all the posts I realisized this
July 28th, 2008 at 12:05 am
y is it laggy and there’s no sound? pls reply to rasengan910@hotmail.com
August 6th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Worked like charm. Thanks a lot. At last a Linux download that worked straight out of the box!
August 10th, 2008 at 1:32 am
I followed http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=4934&p=1. Worked like a charm.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:26 am
hjtdujhtdh
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Isn’t it possible to download from a concrete site the binaries for installing VLC directly on my eee pc 701 with xandros, without getting crazy with all these lines… I’m totally a newbie to Linux and honestly I don’t think you guys explained yourself that much clear! You’re kind of taking for granted that everybody knows how to use Linux. No offense, of course
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
sudo apt-get install vlc works.
instead of the install command provided above.
Thanks Eighty80!!!!
August 31st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I have been able to download and install vlc and it runs fine.
However, when I play a DVD it is jerky and pixellated. The DVD runs fine on my Windows machine under vlc.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Paul
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
New Eee 701SD, 8GB SSD and the 7-inch screen is very readable. And the mplayer problem is still there.
Followed the instructions for installing vlc.
Used the debian.org repository, and had one glitch. Things worked out, after I dropped the libdvdcss2 package and just installed vlc. (I’m not planning on using the machine as a DVD player.)
Given the warnings, I shall comment-out the debian.org repository now.
Thanks for a pretty clear explanation of what to do.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Hi,
I have installed VLC but cant get it to stream files. It always tries to download the file first. What am I doing wrong.
Thanks
Andrew
October 26th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Thanks for sharing all the tips been dying to get this working and it is now. Cheers
November 6th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Am struggling with this guys. Anyone want to step through it with me again, as the best I get is ‘vlc not found’? So guess I’m doing something fundamehtally wrong. Len
November 11th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Thank you for all your comments and hints! Vishal Pipraiya, I followed your footsteps and got it running
I’m have Asus EeePC 1000 and at least the vlc player is working, haven’t found the icon yet though..
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Hi there….
Can anyone help me!!!
I just bought eee-701SD, wanted to watch DVD files but can’t. So i followed the step indicated;
1)Ctrl+Alt+T => to open terminal window
2)typed sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
3)deleted those repositories appeared and overwritted with deb ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
4)Ctrl+X to save; but don’t know how to go back to the main terminal, hence click ‘X’ to close entirely and then relaunch the terminal window
5)typed sudo apt-get update
6)typed sudo apt-get install vlc
[system prompted reading package lists…done
building dependency tree…done
E:
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
sorry accidentally clicked wrongly…. continuation of my error message
E: couldn’t find package vlc….
so what should i do to complete the installation to enable me to watch dvd format movies?
Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.
Cheers
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 pm
anyone can help me with the wireless connection??
do i have to change anything under ‘network connections’,'properties’ for the wireless to be able to connect??? i am currently using LAN instead of wireless….
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I am unable to connect to internet using wireless connection, can anyone please help?
December 4th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
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December 6th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Hi All,
I am using eeepc 1000 and Vishal Pipraiya’s post worked for me:
————————————————
After a lot of trials and tribulations I finally managed to get it installed. Changes from the original article:
1) enter the following repository in sources.list
“deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free”
(without the double quotes)
2) type “sudo apt-get install vlc” (without the double quotes)
without the libdvdcss2 as mentioned in the original article.
3) VLC successfully installed in Applications->Multimedia in full desktop mode.
4) After installation, remove the respository from sources.list
————————————————
Although i needed to do an update doing step 2 (install), like this:
“sudo apt-get update”
December 6th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
I’m sorry, I meant:
Although i needed to do an update BEFORE doing step 2 (install), like this:
“sudo apt-get update”
December 12th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Hello.
Recently, there’s a firefox 3.0.4 update.
Can anyone confirm:
(eee 901, xandros)
If eee has vlc and firefox 3.0.3 installed, upgrade fails
If you get a clean eee, firefox 3.0.4 installs, but then vlc can not (libgtk problem)?
If you get a clean eee, install vlc, then update firefox 3.0.4, vlc gui does not start?
This is sounding more and more like some bad win horror ….
December 12th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Oh, well, upgrade on the first point (vlc+ff303) can have something to do with space on SSD.
Still, ff304 and vlc can not co-exist?
December 14th, 2008 at 12:11 am
@Bstard
Same thing here (on my 901) – vlc was installed and working fine; then I saw a new version of FF in the Asus update utility. I installed it, and VLC no longer works – I can seemingly launch it, but no interface/window:
/home/user> vlc
VLC media player 0.8.6a Janus
Remote control interface initialized. Type ‘help’ for help.
Trying to reinstall results in errors:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.1.5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
December 14th, 2008 at 4:14 am
same symptoms here after ff 3.0.4 upgrade.
vlc no longer works and reinstall not succesfull..
December 28th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
omg should have looked down the bottom first.
just got my new Eee pc today and updated FF.
So it doesnt work with the new ff? Just tryed to put VLC on this comp like 4 times with different addresses.
just get E: Broken Package
PLZ help
December 29th, 2008 at 4:51 am
yep,
exactly the same issue here on the 901 eeepc- vlc worked, then firefox updated itself to 3.0.4, now vlc doesn’t work, can’t reinstall, can run, get the same messages as people above.
any ideas?
can firefox be “rolled back”?
December 29th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Wish I had read from the bottom of this forum first! been trying to install VLC for the last 3 hours with no joy. Same issues as tangled and kym. Does anyone have any ideas? I am a newbie to Linux and any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
karl
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
yeah, this my first experience with open source software, i think it doesnot work cause it changes all the time
January 4th, 2009 at 2:13 am
These repositories worked for me:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
January 12th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Is there any news yet on getting VLC to work after the update to Firefox? I ran the update about 30 seconds before finding this page, and I’m annoyed to say the least! I can’t even do a system restore since my restore disk is 6000 miles away in the UK, and I really want to get this working for when I go to Beijing for Chinese New Year. I don’t want to have to take my MacBook Pro with me if I don’t have to!
January 17th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
I had the same problem as the author – no sound when playing DVDs in Media Player (new EEE 900, clean fresh system). Took his advice and installed VLC – but still no sound! Finally discovered that sound was working on headphone socket but not built-in speaker. (Even though volume was turned up, and other programs did make sounds)
January 17th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Hi
I am trying to get vlc loaded on my Asus Eee pc and am not having much luck with the instructions. Can anyone help?
Thanks
January 19th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Anyone got a solution for VLC to work after the firefox update to 3.0.4. Gosh, only updated yesterday and then this morning then i realised VLC not working…. sigh
Thanks.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I got caught by the Firefox 3.0.4 upgrade
Downloading FF 3.0.5 direct from Mozilla and installing that doesn’t make any difference to the VLC problem.
I expect to have to restore my Eee to factory defaults. Not fun, but I haven’t added much to the system.
This, and one or two other little things, make me wonder if I can trust Asus for Linux upgrades.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Hi Dave
Does it means that if restore to factory default settings, then the VLC should work? How do i reset to factory default?
Thank you
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 am
The methods are described in section 3 of the software manual for my Eee 701SD.
Needs a Windows PC with a DVD drive to copy the data fromthe restore DVD to a flash drive, or a DVD drive which can be connected to the Eee.
It all works. On my 701SD you connect the flash drive (can be an SDHC card), an press [esc] at the boot screen. That lets you choose the boot drive.
Other Eee versions may vary.
January 24th, 2009 at 2:03 am
The above comment about using the http://ftp.uk.debian.org site for the lenny build worked an absolute treat.. cheers! All the other information regarding installing VLC is incorrect and should be updated or removed.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Hooray!
I also got VLC working again by using the
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
Mind you! I had to run apt-get update and install twice because first try bumbed into some errors!
Thanks Pete and Dan!
January 31st, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I am running FF3.0.4 on 701SD. The following will work:
1)Ctrl+Alt+T => to open terminal window
2)typed sudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list (this full screen editor will solve the permission issue)
3)add “deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free” to the list
4)click the save option to save
5)go to the terminal window type “sudo apt-get update”
6)type “sudo apt-get install vlc” It will say it’s going to take 47MB of space. Just type Y to install
The only problem is that it won’t put an icon on the system but if you click on an AVI file it will automatically use VLC. If anyone now how to put an icon on it, please let me know.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Sorry, before step 2, you do need to type “sudo bash” first.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
It just doesn’t work with any of these links! Please someone give a reliable and up-to-date link
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Okay, I finally managed to installsettings it. I confirm that the correct and still working link is this (http://http:us.debian.org/debian).
I have easy mode on and I simply installed it by doing this:
1) ALT+CTRL+T to open terminal window
2) type “sudo synaptic”
3) once synaptic is opened, go here settings > packages archive and add a new one putting the above given url, typing “stable” in the distibution tab, and at last typing “main contrib non-free” in the sections tab. You finally click on ok and it will tell you you have to refresh.
4) you close synaptic and go back at the terminal window and type “sudo bash” to enter the user mode
5) now you type “sudo apt-get install vlc”
6) it will tell you how much space it will occupy on your hard disk and ask you if you want to proceed
7) you say yes and let it do his job (it takes 2 or 3 minutes)
In the end you have VLC installed, but if you have easy mode on no icons will appear. You will have to execute the software from the terminal window just by typing “VLC”
I would have liked to see it working though, because YES, I have installed it but it doesn’t play a damn DVD!
February 4th, 2009 at 1:31 am
VLC seems to play everything but .rmvb file Anyone manage to play this format anywhere?
March 1st, 2009 at 3:24 am
any update on this i’ve tried but it hasn’t got the package anymore
March 5th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Te repository link has a mistake
http://http:us.debian.org/debian
right place:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian
March 8th, 2009 at 5:54 am
i’ve been trying to install vlc for like a month now.. being a newbie i’m getting a little frustrated i keep getting these messages when running the install:
/home/user> sudo 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: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.8.20-7 is to be installed
Depends: libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
/home/user> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
PLEASE HELP
March 8th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
2 minutes ago i tried out the description written by Jack on January 31st, 2009 1:04 pm !
IT WORKED FINE!!!!
March 9th, 2009 at 6:17 am
I have the exact same problem as Randall described above. It just wont work, perhaps I should point out I’m a complete newbie myself.
Please help, I’m getting quite frustrated.
March 9th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Info: I use advanced desktop Xandros on an eee pc 900.
Please help, the world sucks without vlc!
March 17th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Still doesn’t work. Anyone managed to get vlc running on the eeePC 900 with advanced desktop?
March 20th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Please help – same problem as Randall…
after i type in sudo apt-get install vlc
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.8.20-7 is to be installed
Depends: libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
March 21st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I have the same problem. Won’t install and tried fr.debian, us.debian, uk.debian, nothing works, same as above, won’t install vlc
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 am
Hi, I’ve been following the various instructions, but when I type sudo apt-get install vlc I receive the following message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.8.20-7 is to be installed
Depends: libnotify1 (>= 0.4.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnotify1-gtk2.10
Depends: libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
I have FF 3.06 installed.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I have been following this thread for some time and have had exactly the same problem as sebastian.
I am a Linux newbie, so am somewhat surprised to have solved the problem on my eee pc.
My machine is an eee pc 701sd, so dont know if other models will have the same success.
What worked for me was to reinstall Linux, and then upgrade Firefox from V2 to V3.0.4.(note not V.3.0.6.). Attempts of installing VLC when Firefox V2 was installed were not successful.
I then followed the procedure in Furyo’s post,and to my suprise success: VLC is back.
I have no idea why this worked, but am suspicious of Firefox V2 and V3.0.6.
Good Luck
April 7th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
same problem here with the guys
vlc wont install
April 21st, 2009 at 1:28 am
In the end I installed under Wine. Now at least vlc is finally installed but unfortunately not all files will work.
Personally I’ve come to the conclusion that Eee Pc sucks, especially with Xandros. So I’m gonna go buy myself a new machine with good old Windows.
I surrender, I’m no more than Mr Drag ‘n’ Drop. Eee pc is good for travelling purposes though.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 am
hello everybody, a fascinating discussion! should one conclude that linux and the likes are really only meant for “insiders” – or outsider who have an insider by their side? I have struggled installing every single piece of software on eee pc – and tried almost everything suggested above… It seems that my VLC is now installed and should be working – but where do I find it and how do I make it the default programme for media? Also, how do I delete the deb ftp I added – I tried deleting it by simply “erasing it” with delete followed by Ctrl+X and Y – just the way I added it; well it simply does not work. I do not easily give up – but should every bit of software take the time to write a science paper to install on eee pc??? Probably I made the wrong choice…
Thanks for any help, suggestions you might have for a rather at loss soul about finding VLC and deleting the source!
May 8th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Heads up! I also ran into the problem with libgtk2.0-0 dependencies preventing VLC install.
FYI, it happened while I had only partially applied the updates that Xandros/Asus provides. Once I did all the updates available, VLC installed fine using the instructions above. In other words, it is the update manager that interferes somehow in certain situations.
May 19th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Hi!
Replacing
“deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free”
by
“deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free”
should fix the libgtk2.0-0 problem…
Worked fine for me!
=D
May 29th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Been trying for quite a while now… I’m stuck with the same problem as Ashish and everybody else…
New links pls?
May 29th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
I guess I’ma have to try updating everything…
June 4th, 2009 at 4:43 am
You might want to use oldstable instead of stable to ensure you don’t hose your system.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:04 am
For the linux newbies having trouble the synaptic package manager should be more straight forward for you.
== open a command window
press: –t
== launch synaptic
type (or paste) into the command prompt: sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic
(wait for it to load, could take a few minutes)
== add repository
click Settings->Repositories
click on New
enter details like below
URI: ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
Distribution: oldstable
Section(s): main contrib non-free
== reload package lists
click Reload
== search for vlc ==
click Search
enter vlc
find vlc and mozilla-plugin-vlc in the list, mark each for installation and agree to any dependencies.
Click apply
agree to any other prompts.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:48 am
thnx grumble
Works great
June 11th, 2009 at 2:33 am
hey alll, i am a super NOOOOB on my new eeee pc 900, i wonder why it always ignoring packing nr. 2 dont now why…. can anyone help mee:( just can not install vlc player.. just want to see some movies….
June 16th, 2009 at 8:47 am
why is this so freakin hard? how was i to know i was buying a puter to force me to learn programming? asus i’m on the third eee pc after having had to send two back and just finally found how to restore factory settings to stop the screens cycling endlessly and now the mplayer is stopped again. I’m thinkin i’ve spent so much time just trying to make the thing work that i might spend some time bad mouthing asus in every forum i can can find.
If i have to code in stuff just to play audio (and i have searched and found about twenty versions unsuccessfully) then asus is using customers as beta testers and maybe i can warn folks.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:07 am
I spent ages on here and ultimately failed – this site http://spiceminesofkessel.com/2008/07/16/tip-install-vlc-eee-pc/
has the shizzle and I had it sorted in double quick time, now I have VLC working on my Asus 701 YES
June 26th, 2009 at 3:15 am
For those who have the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.8.20-7 is to be installed
Depends: libnotify1 (>= 0.4.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnotify1-gtk2.10
Depends: libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
grumble’s explanation above was the one that solved the package dependency error problems for me. not a lot of tweaking, just type “vlc” in the console when you’re done. Sucks that I read through pages of failure to get to his instructions that actually worked in my case.
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September 11th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
can someone please help me with line 1 from /etc/apt/sources.list
think i screwed it up
cheers
October 30th, 2009 at 5:09 am
When I reloaded the synaptic package manager that Grumble talked about I got this:
W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org oldstable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B
I really have no idea what’s going on…
Anyone?
November 29th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Hi,
I have a Eeepc 901 with SSD(4G system and 16G storage)
I started to install vlc using the exact procedure I found above. It appears that I have no more space left on the system disk and the instalation ends in error:
“Unpacking replacement libc6 …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb (–unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/gconv/libCNS.so’: No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
/> sudo apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists… Error!
E: Unable to write mmap – msync (28 No space left on device)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.”
Can someone help me?
Thanks
December 20th, 2009 at 7:12 am
I am also getting the pubkey errors when reloading the synaptic manager:
W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org oldstable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B
W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B NO_PUBKEY 4D270D06F42584E6
Any ideas?
February 17th, 2010 at 8:14 am
Hello my little eee pc 900 does not want to run the VLC program when I do all the things you say over there! It completly get me mad because there are some films I want to watch from my USB keys that I cannot watch. Does anyone found a solution about it??? :/ thanks
PS! I am not a computer expert!!!
April 24th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
If you have an Asus Eee 701 and have dependency issues that are blocking your attempts to install VLC in the year 2010…
EXAMPLE:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.8.20-7 is to be installed
Depends: libnotify1 (>= 0.4.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnotify1-gtk2.10
Depends: libwxgtk2.6-0 (>= 2.6.3.2.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Grumble’s advice of using oldstable instead of stable worked for me…
it actually makes sense when you think about it…
Cheers!!!
May 13th, 2010 at 2:39 am
I had many of the difficulties installing vlc on my eee, but found Grumbles post above using the synaptic package manager the best way to avoid package dependency problems.
I also received the gpg error and solved it using this post
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/809-debian-apt-get-no-pubkey-gpg-error