Moving to Linux Mint.

Hey guys,
I just moved to Linux mint!
Don't worry, I'll still be posting here, because mint is based off Ubuntu the steps should work on either.

If I make an article for just mint, it will be labeled [Mint]

As for why I'm leaving Ubuntu, it's noting personal, I don't dislike it, or hate unity.
I've spent some time in both, unity, and Gnome 3.

It's just with all the issues I've had to fix by hand, and all the half installed drivers, broken dependencies, and messed up config files, (all caused by me) it began to have some issues.

I won't go in to details. but I saw some video about mint. and I liked the gnome2/3 hybrid desktop.
and some of it's cool features, so instead of re-installing ubuntu for the 3rd time on this laptop,
I decided to try something new. the past two years I was ubuntu->debian->ubuntu->fedora->ubuntu.
So I'm trying something else.

Fixing VLC dependencies error (Can't Reinstall VLC)

The story: (feel free to skip)

     I use VLC a lot, And When 2.0 came out Ubuntu did not update to that version, the REPO had the older version even months later, So I added the daily repo:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu

and that worked for a while, after a few months later I received a 'Distribution upgrade', and when I installed it, it removed VLC. when I tried to re-install it gave me a bunch of unmet dependency's, so I disabled the source, ran apt-get update, and tried to install the older VLC, that did not work either. I eventually found a web page, and it helped me get it working, and I was also able to get the 'Stable Daily' working too


But last night, I got another 'disto upgrade' and it uninstalled VLC again.

when I try to reinstall from daily I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 vlc : Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf but it is not installable
       Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 the same thing would happen when I disabled the 'Daily' source. after some time on askubuntu, I tried some suggestions, and neither helped, So I picked one of the dependencies and tried to install it manually:

sudo apt-get install vlc-nox
This gave me a dependency error for 'libvlc5' so I attempted to install that:
sudo apt-get install libvlc5
And that said it depended on 'libvlccore5' so...
sudo apt-get install libvlccore5
and that pointed to 'vlc-data' and another program I did not reconize. so I started with vlc-data:
sudo apt-get install vlc-data

 and this time it said vlc-data was already installed! 


-The Fix-

so I ran:
sudo apt-get remove --purge vlc-data

and just to make sure, nothing went wrong. I disabled the 'Daily' source for VLC Then I ran:
sudo apt-get update
followed by:
sudo apt-get install vlc
and it installed without any issues, so then I turned the daily source back on
and ran:
sudo apt-get upgrade
and BOOM! I was able to get the latest version of VLC!

 --- Quick fix:

 This may fix the problem for you (did not work for me though):
sudo apt-get remove --purge vlc
followed by:
sudo apt-get install vlc

source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/197161/cant-reinstall-vlc-removed-by-updateagain/197321#197321