$ sudo apt-get install vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: vlc : Depends: libgles1-mesa (>= 7.8.1) but it is not going to be installed or libgles1 Depends: libgles2-mesa (>= 7.8.1) but it is not going to be installed or libgles2 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt-get install libgles1-mesa Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgles1-mesa : Depends: libglapi-mesa (= 10.5.2-0ubuntu1) but 10.5.9-2ubuntu1~vivid1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt-get install libgles2-mesa Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgles2-mesa : Depends: libglapi-mesa (= 10.5.2-0ubuntu1) but 10.5.9-2ubuntu1~vivid1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libglapi-mesa Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reinstallation of libglapi-mesa is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.