apt-get install libmodplug0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED amarok amarok-engines amarok-xine codeine kaffeine kaffeine-mozilla kmplayer kmplayer-common kmplayer-plugin libmodplug0c2 libxine1 The following NEW packages will be installed libmodplug0 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 118kB of archives. After unpacking 42.5MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? apt-get install vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 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. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. vlc: Depends: libmodplug0 (>= 1:0.7-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages jindal:~# synaptic jindal:~# dpkg-query -s libmodplug0c2 Package: libmodplug0c2 Status: install ok installed