vlc is broken after upgrading

[Jamon Camisso]

On 06/16/2010 11:06 AM, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I dist-upgraded my Debian testing system yesterday, and now I cannot
> view video files.  It appears that the upgrade of libva to version
> 1.0.3-1 has killed all non-Flash video on my machine.  I know that there
> is no simple way to downgrade via apt (the Achilles heel of Debian,
> IMO), but is there another way to sort this sort of thing out?  Do I
> remove the offending package and reinstall the previous, non-broken
> library?  Any advice would be welcome.  Thanks!

Do you have the older version in /var/cache/apt/archives? If not, I have
one from June 5 that I can upload somewhere for you to grab and install
manually via dpkg.

Jamon
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