I use VLC a lot. And when 2.0 came out Ubuntu did not update to that version, the REPO had the older version even months later, So I added the daily repo:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu
and that worked for a while, after a few months later I received a 'Distribution upgrade'
and when I installed it, it removed VLC. when I tried to re-install it gave me a bunch of unmet dependency's, so I disabled the source, ran apt-get update, and tried to install the older VLC, that did not work either. I eventually found a web page, and it helped me get it working, and I was also able to get the 'Stable Daily' working too
But last night, I got another 'distro upgrade' and it uninstalled VLC again.
when I try to reinstall from daily I get:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc : Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf but it is not installable
Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
and from the default source:
vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
vlc-plugin-pulse : Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Any ideas? I am using ubuntu 12.04 64bit.