#555 The guide to install codecs is broken
Closed: insufficient data 2 months ago by freelibre1. Opened 3 months ago by freelibre1.

Fedora 37 KDE, fully updated.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/assembly_installing-plugins-for-playing-movies-and-music:

The first two commands work fine:
$ sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-*,good-*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
$ sudo dnf install lame* --exclude=lame-devel

The third command returns an error:
$ sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia

No match for group package "gstreamer1-libav"
Error:
Problem 1: problem with installed package libswscale-free-5.1.2-6.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-6.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 requires ffmpeg-libs(x86-64) = 5.1.2-3.fc37, but none of the providers can be installed
- conflicting requests
- package ffmpeg-5.1.2-9.fc37.x86_64 requires ffmpeg-libs(x86-64) = 5.1.2-9.fc37, but none of the providers can be installed
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-9.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-6.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-9.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64

Problem 2: ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.i686 has inferior architecture
- conflicting requests
- problem with installed package libavcodec-free-5.1.2-6.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libavcodec-free provided by libavcodec-free-5.1.2-6.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libavcodec-free provided by libavcodec-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-9.fc37.i686 has inferior architecture
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-9.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libavcodec-free provided by libavcodec-free-5.1.2-6.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-9.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libavcodec-free provided by libavcodec-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- problem with installed package firefox-109.0-4.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.i686 conflicts with libavcodec-free provided by libavcodec-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-9.fc37.i686 conflicts with libavcodec-free provided by libavcodec-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.i686 conflicts with libavcodec-free provided by libavcodec-free-5.1.2-6.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-9.fc37.i686 conflicts with libavcodec-free provided by libavcodec-free-5.1.2-6.fc37.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)


Metadata Update from @ankursinha:
- Issue assigned to ankursinha

3 months ago

Thanks for the report @freelibre1 . This could be because of to a conflict between the newish ffmpeg in the Fedora repos and the ffmpeg that RPM Fusion has traditionally provided but we'll need to diagnose it a little bit to be sure:

https://rpmfusion.org/CommonBugs?highlight=%28ffmpeg%29

Could you please open a topic on https://ask.fedoraproject.org and we can debug it there and update the docs if necessary.

Metadata Update from @ankursinha:
- Issue tagged with: needs info

3 months ago

@freelibre1 @ankursinha Please, could you provide some information about the current status? It's open now for 2 months and the last post at ask.fedora is about a month old.

I think the instructions are fine. RPM Fusion does document that one needs to swap the fedora ffmpeg package with the rpmfusion one, and that they're meant to conflict:

https://rpmfusion.org/CommonBugs?highlight=%28ffmpeg%29

You might want to add this command to that page then:

I don't know about the current status, I have been using Fedora just fine since then.

You might want to add this command to that page:
sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/assembly_installing-plugins-for-playing-movies-and-music

Metadata Update from @freelibre1:
- Issue close_status updated to: insufficient data
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

2 months ago

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