I'm trying to get R10 working but both vlc and skype show as "broken" when chosen in synaptic. (the vlc and skype packages both show as red) I've tried updating the OS, changing repos, using a different USB creator but it doesn't change anything. Any thoughts would be great.

BTW, I have 4 OSs on this machine, so I booted to another, cleared the /var/cache/apt folder, then install vlc. I then grabbed the files out of the /var/cache/apt folder and tried to install in R10 with dpkg in terminal. That failed also without any helpful errors.

TIA