VLC after apt-get update & upgrade

[AGID]

After i ran the commands apt-get update & upgrade. i got these errors out of no where. i am using buster with latest updates. and pi 3 b+ then i found someone on the forum suggesting running apt-get full-upgrade and when i did i found vlc got uninstalled and now trying to install it i get same error. here is the error:


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-plugin-base (= 3.0.11-0+deb10u1+rpt2) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-l10n (= 3.0.11-0+deb10u1+rpt2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[beta-tester]

i just ran into the same issue on my RPi4B with Raspberry Pi OS (2020-05-27)...
vlc is gone and un-fixable, after

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sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

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sudo apt install --fix-broken --fix-missing -y  vlc

does not help

dpkg shows the folowing in the list:

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dpkg --get-selections | grep  vlc
vlc-plugin-base:armhf				deinstall

trying to uninstall vlc-plugin-base and reinstall vlc gives me the same error message as AGID has

[HawaiianPi]

Yup, VLC is broken now.

It looks like some arm64 packages are now required, and won't install on RasPiOS32.

Switching to the 64-bit kernel doesn't help.

EDIT
These 2 arm64 packages seem to be the problem.

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$ apt search vlc
...
vlc-data/testing 3.0.11-0+deb10u1+rpt2+arm64 all
  common data for VLC

vlc-l10n/testing 3.0.11-0+deb10u1+rpt2+arm64 all
  translations for VLC
  ...

[pidd]

I'm getting the opposite, the vlc-data is loading the arm64 package even though I'm NOT on Rpi64, this in turn is the wrong package for vlc-plugin-base and so vlc won't install.

[HawaiianPi]

@pidd,

Yes, see my edit of the post above yours.

[pidd]

The vlc-l10n is only a recommended package so not necessary.

Is there a way of forcing the other vlc-data package? - its there in the repo .....EDIT, no its not, it was a few minutes ago!

[pidd]

VLC is now fixed

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sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt install vlc

[HawaiianPi]

Yup, I happened to be testing a new RasPiOS32 card on another system, and sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y && sudo apt install --reinstall vlc -y fixed it.

Tried it on my main system (USB-MSD booted 4B2), and that also worked.

[beta-tester]

oh yes... i have my VLC player back again...
i can't live without it...

[DougieLawson]

Put it back with sudo apt install --reinstall vlc.