We believe that your issue has been closed by the upload of
Version 0.2.15 of grml2hd-utils from Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>.
The explanation is attached below

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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:36:14 +0100
Source: grml2hd-utils
Binary: grml2hd-utils
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.2.15
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml2hd-utils - utilities for a grml system on harddisk
Changes: 
 grml2hd-utils (0.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
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   * install-packages-useful: drop DVD Ripper (transcode dependencies broken
     in debian multimedia and it's not such a relevant package that we want
     to support it) and vlc-plugin-alsa (deprecated nowadays). Thanks to
     Karl Voit and schula. [Closes: issue598] [Closes: issue597]
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Thanks for checking schula, vlc-plugin-alsa doesn't exist upstream anymore, 
right - but install-packages-useful tries to install it. I've fixed it in our 
script anyway, upload is pending. :)

regards,
-mika-

this is a upstream problem and not a grml issue besides that, it is fixed as i
can install vlc via apt-get.

grml 2008.11 direct after grml2hd + reboot: grml2hd-utils -> Useful -> "Media
Players"