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I'm having a difficulty installing VLC 3.0 in Ubuntu Zesty. Using the official PPA. I added it using

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/master-daily
sudo apt-get update

And apt-cache show has it listed,

apt-cache show vlc | grep Version
Version: 3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu16.04.1
Version: 2.2.4-14ubuntu2

but when I try to install 3.0.0 with sudo apt-get install vlc=3.* I get,

sudo apt-get install vlc=3.*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu16.04.1' ( [amd64]) for 'vlc'
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu16.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libavcodec-ffmpeg56 (>= 7:2.6) but it is not installable or
                libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 (>= 7:2.6) but it is not installable
       Depends: libgles1-mesa (>= 7.8.1) or
                libgles1
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu16.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-samba (= 3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu16.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Is there another PPA that provides VLC 3.0 in Ubuntu Zesty? It seems that libavcodec-ffmpeg56 was renamed,

$ apt-cache search libavcodec ffmpeg
libavcodec-extra57 - FFmpeg library with additional de/encoders for audio/video codecs

And that now vlc-3.* needs to be built against the new library (libavcodec-extra57) and have its manifest updated from old name (libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56)

I can't file a bug on this either because Launchpad doesn't support that. All I can do is write the maintainer using the Launchpad contact forum, which I did. No response back.

Evan Carroll
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4 Answers4

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You can install a snap of vlc 3:

sudo snap install vlc

It will be installed alongside your original vlc (if you don't uninstall the original vlc).

elmicha
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I prefer flatpak over snap. It's open source and multi arch application sandboxing and distribution framework for Linux. It's easy to use and you can run closed source applications such as Steam, Sublimetext in it.

You can install it via ppa or build it straight from github, it doesn't take much time. What I did for my Ubuntu 16.04

mkdir FLATPAK; cd FLATPAK

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree.git
cd ostree
git submodule update --init
env NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.git
cd flatpak
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire.git
cd pipewire
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal.git
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.git
./autogen.sh
./configure
make 
sudo make install

then add application repositories to install applications.

flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Finally install VLC

flatpak --user install flathub org.videolan.VLC

and launch it via

flatpak run org.videolan.VLC

To see available applications and runtimes

 flatpak --user remote-ls -d flathub

For more info check out Flatpak

EDIT: I added new dependencies and changed order of installation sequence.

Community
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kenn
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I think you may have added the wrong ppa source, or the ppa isn't working 100% for 17.04 now. The linked ppc home says for 17.04 these should be somewhere in /etc/apt/sources.list*

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/master-daily/ubuntu zesty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/master-daily/ubuntu zesty main

From the packages it wants to install and depends on, I'm seeing a lot of "16.04" that doesn't sound right for your "17.04" system. Like:

Version: 3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu**16.04.1**  
...  
Depends: vlc-nox (= 3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu**16.04.1**) but...  
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu**16.04.1**) but...  
Recommends: vlc-plugin-samba (= 3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu**16.04.1**) but...
Anwar
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Xen2050
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I had the videolan/master-daily PPA enabled though my intention was not to use 3.0 back when I upgraded to 17.04, so I continued to use what I thought were the latest 2.x builds. I just noticed that some icons in the interface have changed and checked the about dialog to find out that I'm using 3.0 now.

Package: vlc
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: video
Installed-Size: 220
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1
Provides: mp3-decoder
Depends: vlc-bin (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1), vlc-plugin-base (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1), vlc-plugin-qt (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1), vlc-plugin-video-output (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1), vlc-l10n (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1)
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1), vlc-plugin-samba (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1), vlc-plugin-skins2 (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1), vlc-plugin-video-splitter (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1), vlc-plugin-visualization (= 3.0.0~~git20170829+r71452+74~ubuntu17.04.1)
LiveWireBT
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