vlc has stopped working

[asqwerth]

I tried reinstalling:

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$ sudo slapt-get -i --reinstall vlc
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following packages will be reinstalled:
  vlc 
0 upgraded, 1 reinstalled, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0.0kB/22.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 58.6MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y

Preparing to replace vlc-3.0.2-x86_64-1dj with vlc-3.0.2-x86_64-1dj
Reinstalling package vlc-3.0.2-x86_64-1dj...
| vlc (multimedia player for various audio and video formats)
| 
| VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various
| audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...)
| as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
| It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in
| IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
| 
| 
| vlc home: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
| 
| 
| 
Generating VLC plugins cache data...
WARNING: Post-installation script failed. (32512)

Didn't work, and there's that error message about a post-installation script failing.

Running vlc from terminal gives:

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$ vlc
vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libidn.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[ADDED]

Went to http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/sl ... kware64/l/

to see if there was an idn package, and noted there was a libidn-1 and a libidn2 package.

That's where I stopped. But I note that the libidn package installed on my system does not have the "-1 " tag at the end.

SHould that be installed in place of libidn?

[djemos]

Thank you for reporting this.
Just upgrade vlc

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sudo slapt-get -u
sudo slapt-get -i vlc npapi-vlc