Removing ffmpeg breaks dependency

[Cytomax55]

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Manjaro 21.2.2 Qonos KDE x86_64 Linux 5.16.2-1-MANJARO

On the AUR When i try to run ALVR or ALVR-git i get

could not satisfy dependencies:

• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libavcodec.so=58-64' required by chromaprint
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libavformat.so=58-64' required by chromaprint
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libavutil.so=56-64' required by chromaprint
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libswresample.so=3-64' required by chromaprint
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libswscale.so=5-64' required by freerdp

[Niroc]

Heya,

I had that problem. Put "ffmpeg-compat" into Pamac or Yay and install the right one for compatibility with your legacy ffmpeg dependency needs.... along side ffmpeg-vulkan for ALVR of course.

[kacpi2442]

AUR ffmpeg-vulkan actually builds version 5.0 of ffmpeg which breaks dependencies (instead of ffmpeg 4.4.1). Use this patch on pkgbuild:

--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -113,11 +113,6 @@
 prepare() {
   cd ffmpeg

-  git fetch --all --tags
-
-  # Get latest stable tag
-  # git checkout tags/$(git tag --list 'n*[!d][!e][!v]' | tail -n1)&>/dev/null
-
   git cherry-pick -n 988f2e9eb063db7c1a678729f58aab6eba59a55b # fix nvenc on older gpus
   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}"/vmaf-model-path.patch
 }

[Promootheus]

Hi Niroc, I get this when I try to install ffmpeg-compat, not sure how to get around this :-(

conflicting files:

• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.58 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.58.134.100 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.58 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.58.13.100 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavfilter.so.7 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavfilter.so.7.110.100 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.58 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.58.76.100 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavutil.so.56 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libavutil.so.56.70.100 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.55 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.55.9.100 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libswresample.so.3 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libswresample.so.3.9.100 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libswscale.so.5 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)
• ffmpeg-compat-58: /usr/lib/libswscale.so.5.9.100 already exists in filesystem (owned by ffmpeg-vulkan)

[Niroc]

That error means you've already got it.

I believe ffmpeg-vulkan was patched to be backwards compatible so, you're software should just work.

let me know if your other software doesn't work tho

[Xn4m3d]

Hi, same issue here, i don't understand what to do exactly and i don't want to break anything because i'm not so advanced in using packages for now... If anyone can guide me i would appreciate a lot. Thank you.

`sudo pamac install alvr  ✔ Warning: alvr is only available from AUR Preparing... Checking alvr dependencies... Checking ffmpeg-vulkan dependencies... Choose a provider for cargo: 1: rust 1:1.61.0-1 extra 2: rustup 1.24.3-2 community

Enter a number (default=1):

Resolving dependencies... Choose a provider for cargo: 1: rust 1:1.61.0-1 extra 2: rustup 1.24.3-2 community

Enter a number (default=1):

Checking inter-conflicts... Error: Failed to prepare transaction: could not satisfy dependencies:

• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libavcodec.so=59-64' required by chromaprint
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libavformat.so=59-64' required by chromaprint
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libavutil.so=57-64' required by chromaprint
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libswresample.so=4-64' required by chromaprint
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libavdevice.so=59-64' required by mpv
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libavfilter.so=8-64' required by mpv
• removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'libswscale.so=6-64' required by mpv`

[zmerp]

If you don't want to risk breaking your linux install or you just have problems having the system ffmpeg working with ALVR you can just use the portable build.

[m00nwtchr]

The actual solution is to use paru/yay -S ffmpeg-vulkan --assume-installed ffmpeg, IIRC

[AlanMauricioC]

yup, it seems that ffmpeg-vulkan has backwards compatibility as @Niroc and @m00nwtchr mentioned, that fixed the problem and now I was able to install it

[zmerp]

FFmpeg is now statically linked.