I got the following error after installing VLC on my Quantal 12.10. Checked for libass4 and its already there. Is there anybody encountering this same silly error and willing to resolve..??
priyevsingh@priyevsingh-K43U:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/56.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: error processing libass4:amd64 (--configure): package libass4:amd64 is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed') dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vlc-nox: vlc-nox depends on libass4 (>= 0.9.7); however: Package libass4:amd64 is not installed. dpkg: error processing vlc-nox (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vlc-plugin-notify: vlc-plugin-notify depends on vlc-nox (= 2.0.6+git20130423+r563-0~r46~quantal1); however: Package vlc-nox is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing vlc-plugin-notify (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vlc-plugin-pulse: vlc-plugin-pulse depends on vlc-nox (= 2.0.6+git20130423+r563-0~r46~quantal1); however: Package vlc-nox is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing vlc-plugin-pulse (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Errors were encountered while processing: libass4:amd64 vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) priyevsingh@priyevsingh-K43U:~$