VLC in not working! cannot instantiate dialogs provider

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I have a latest version of ParrotSec OS and vlc is not working.
VLC media player 3.0.11.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.11.1-0-g52483f3ca2)
[000055daff565740] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use ‘cvlc’ to use vlc without interface.
[000055daff643e40] skins2 interface error: cannot instantiate dialogs provider
[000055daff5f6d90] main playlist: playlist is empty
[000055daff643e40] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host “*console”.
VLC media player 3.0.11.1 Vetinari
Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help’ for help.

^C[000055daff643e40] [cli] lua interface error: Error loading script /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/lua/intf/cli.luac: lua/intf/modules/host.lua:289: Interrupted.

There is advice and any solutions please guide me to resolve it…
Appreciate in advanced…

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This is basically because of broken libraries mainly QT plugins.
try this
sudo apt install --reinstall libqt5svg5
if this do not fix the issue, once do vlc -h and paste the log here. Then we can continue to fix your problem.

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Hey Aabhash Basnet! Thanks for guide…
I’d try to reinstall libqt5svg5 and there is nothing changed still got the same error…
vlc -h result
VLC media player 3.0.11.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.11.1-0-g52483f3ca2)
Usage: vlc [options] [stream] …
You can specify multiple streams on the commandline.
They will be enqueued in the playlist.
The first item specified will be played first.

Options-styles:
–option A global option that is set for the duration of the program.
-option A single letter version of a global --option.
:option An option that only applies to the stream directly before it
and that overrides previous settings.

Stream MRL syntax:
[[access][/demux]://]URL[#[title][:chapter][-[title][:chapter]]]
[:option=value …]

Many of the global --options can also be used as MRL specific :options.
Multiple :option=value pairs can be specified.

URL syntax:
file:///path/file Plain media file
http://host[:port]/file HTTP URL
ftp://host[:port]/file FTP URL
mms://host[:port]/file MMS URL
screen:// Screen capture
dvd://[device] DVD device
vcd://[device] VCD device
cdda://[device] Audio CD device
udp://[[]@[][:]]
UDP stream sent by a streaming server
vlc://pause: Pause the playlist for a certain time
vlc://quit Special item to quit VLC

core program (core) …opened vlc help section

I am waiting for your answer…

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ok so
for the new vlc, you need to install libxkbcommon, qt5, qt5-webkit packages separately as they are the main dependencies.
Please try installing these packages and then once again check and report back