On Thursday 18 June 2020 06:01:47 pm gregm wrote:
> On Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:44 PM, William Morder via trinity-users 
<trinity-users@...> wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 June 2020 15:28:46 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
> > > > This is directed mostly to Nik (since I've heard him mention both
> > > > Devuan and VLC); but also to anybody else who might have some inkling
> > > > what is causing this issue.
> > > > VLC is (or would be) my media player of choice on most of my machines
> Try: login as a new user, make sure member of the "video" group. Or backup
> then remove the vlc config dir.
>
> "apt purge vlc" works also..less typing 'dpkg" removes one package, has to
> have the .deb file extension.


I'd say go with greg's approach.

- Create a brand new user and try VLC under them.
- Re-install vlc with the (--force?) option, so apt completely overwrites 
everything.

Best,
Michael