I have been having problems forever getting skins2 to work properly. finally today I did the stupid thing of manually deleting the vlc folder in /usr/share, assuming that when I reinstalled VLC it would rebuild the directory...unfortunately, this didn't happen.

When I run

vlc -I skins2 it immediately goes to open a skin view, I try to select the skin on my desktop and it spits out this error:

[00000405] skins2 interface error: cannot find the skins DTD
[00000413] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : failed to load external entity "skin.dtd"

[00000413] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 2) : Validation failed: no DTD found !
[00000405] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /tmp/vltQ0QbF7/theme.xml
[00000405] skins2 interface error: error while parsing /tmp/vltQ0QbF7/theme.xml
[00000418] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : Document is empty

[00000405] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /home/user/Desktop/Glow.vlt
[00000405] skins2 interface error: cannot load the theme, aborting
[00000409] main generic error: object is not attached


Thanks all