Recently I did a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04. Then I wanted to install latest vlc
(2.2.1), and googled for it. Then I came across this ppa: ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
and added it to my repositories by following command.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
Then I issued following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
But there was an error regarding mesa
packages and I again googled for a solution and found that adding ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
would solve the issue. So I used following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
Now vlc
installed successfully. Then I upgraded my system:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
After that I removed above two ppas from the system
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
Now when I can not install some softwares or upgrades. For example, if I do apt-get purge vlc && apt-get install vlc
I get some dependency problem. Also I got some dependency problem when tried to install inkscape
add ons through Software Center.
So how can I revert my Ubuntu system to packages provided by ubuntu repositories only?
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE 1
Purged the 2 ppas along with downgrading ppa provided packages. Still sudo apt-get install vlc
gives Dependency error.
UPDATE 2
Executed:aptitude install vlc
. There found that the problem was with vlc-data
. So executed following commands to install vlc successfully.
apt-get purge vlc-data
apt-get install vlc
vlc
provided some new features that current official version didn't and for trying it, I installed the ppa version. But now in light of problems faced, I think sticking to official version was better.ppa-purge
packages can be downgraded. I have installed the package. Now I added the 2 ppas mentioned in question again and issued command to purge one of the ppas. Checking the progress.ppa-purge
. Stillsudo apt-get install vlc
reports dependency problem