Bug#595252: vlc: Says "Please update alsa-lib"

[David Henningsson]

2010-09-02 15:47, Nigel Horne skrev:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 1.1.3-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> No audio comes out of an audio CD.  I get the mesage
> 
> 	Potential ALSA version problem:
> 	VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any).
> 	Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this issue.
> 
> But when I try "aptitude install alsa-lib", I get 
> 
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "alsa-lib"

Under Debian and derivatives, alsa-lib is called "libasound2".

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