Vlc plugin error, No plugins found

I installed vlc via ppa from vlc
After some days it started giving plugin errors, I removed vlc and purged the ppa

But still it gives plugin errors whenever I install other software from USC, or I update my machine.

Like:

main libvlc error: No plugins found! Check your VLC installation.

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1 Answer

It would seem you installed vlc* from the videolan master ppa. Ocassionaly it will produce builds that complete but have no plugins, ie. worthless.

If you have synaptic installed or can install, open it up, search vlc & mark ALL the vlc packages for complete removal, there will be 5 or 6

(libvlc5; libvlccore5 ; vlc-data; vlc-nox; vlc-plugin-notify; vlc-plugin-pulse

Alternately try this, removing vlc-data should remove all

sudo apt-get purge vlc-data

When you get this all cleaned up & if desiring the newly named 1.2, (vlc-2.0), then use this ppa for a stable build, for 11.10 & 12.04 only

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily

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