Bug#656149: vlc: Can't locate X11/Protocol.pm in @INC; =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6; ?= BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 6.

Sat Mar 3 11:43:03 UTC 2012

tags 656149 + unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

Le mardi 17 janvier 2012 00:13:05 Paul Menzel, vous avez écrit :
> starting VLC 1.1.13 after installing it using
> 
>         sudo aptitude install vlc
> 
> the following messages are printed to the terminal.

>         Can't locate X11/Protocol.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at -e line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation
> aborted at -e line 6.
> 
> Do some dependencies need to be updated?

VLC does not embed perl directly, and none of the main libraries it depends on 
either. This may be caused by a plugin on your system, either a VLC plugin, or 
more like a Qt4 UI plugin.

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