I had the stale version installed from MELPA myself so I installed the ELPA version and it looks like package reported the incorrect path name but under the covers did the right thing.

"Package vlf is installed.

     Status: Installed in 'vlf-20191126.2250/'. <<<---- incorrect path: it was put in vlf-1.7.2/
    Version: 20191126.2250
     Commit: cc02f2533782d6b9b628cec7e2dcf25b2d05a27c
    Summary: View Large Files.
    Website: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
   Keywords: large files utilities
Other versions: 1.7.2 (installed), 20191126.2250 (melpa), 1.7.2 (gnu)."

On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> wrote:
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editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Okay, I think that one was my bad, as I was using the unmaintained melpa
> version.

Maybe someone could ask the MELPA maintainers to remove that outdated
package?