Cannot update with pacman: maybe broken dependencies

ARM General system
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Hello.
I’m trying to update my Raspberry PI installation, but I’m getting this error:

# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra       2.5 MiB  5.13 MiB/s 00:00 [--------------------] 100%
 community   6.5 MiB  10.5 MiB/s 00:01 [--------------------] 100%
 alarm is up to date
 aur is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing vid.stab (1.1.1-1) breaks dependency 'libvidstab.so=1.1-64' required by ffmpeg-rpi

Is this just a problem in my computer or a general bug?
Thank you in advance,
MZ

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For the record, can you show the output of

pacman -Qi ffmpeg-rpi

?

Is that package is still available for ARM?

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My output for “pacman -Qi ffmpeg-rpi” is here: https://0x0.st/HKJL.txt
and about the availability of the package, my output for “pacman -Ss ffmpeg-rpi” is

alarm/ffmpeg-rpi 4.4.4-1 [installed]
    FFmpeg from the release/4.4 branch with hw accel for RPi 3/4/400
alarm/ffmpeg-rpi-bin 4.4.4-1
    binaries and man pages
alarm/ffmpeg-rpi-debug 4.4.4-1
    Detached debugging symbols for ffmpeg-rpi
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The version of ffmpeg-rpi (4.4.4-1) needs libvidstab.so=1.1-64.
While vid.stab is trying to install libvidstab.so=1.2-64.

vid.stab 1.1.1-1

Architecture: aarch64
Repository: extra
Description: Video stabilization library
Upstream URL: http://public.hronopik.de/vid.stab
License(s): GPL
Provides: libvidstab.so=1.2-64
Installed Size: 147KiB
Build Date: Mon Apr 24 23:39:50 2023 UTC

Not sure but perhaps ffmpeg need to be rebuild against this new library.

ffmpeg-rpi 4.4.4-1

Architecture: aarch64
Repository: alarm
Split Packages: ffmpeg-rpi-bin, ffmpeg-rpi-debug
Description: FFmpeg from the release/4.4 branch with hw accel for RPi 3/4/400
Upstream URL: https://ffmpeg.org/
License(s): GPL3
Provides: libavcodec.so=58-64, libavdevice.so=58-64, libavfilter.so=7-64, libavformat.so=58-64, libavutil.so=56-64, libpostproc.so=55-64, libswresample.so=3-64, libswscale.so=5-64
Conflicts: ffmpeg4.4, ffmpeg-shinobi
Installed Size: 21MiB
Build Date: Thu Apr 13 18:20:37 2023 UTC
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Ok, anyway the current situation does not come from manual source code compilation. Everything that is installed comes from the official packages, and I would like to see if it is possible to fix it using pacman, in order to keep the system clean and consistent.

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the maintainers of that repository need to rebuild ffmpeg-rpi to resolve that issue. There is not much that you as a user can do about it, except manually rebuilding it.

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Yes that was my thought too:

So, OP needs just to wait for it or perhaps ignore the update to vid.stab for now to be able to update the rest of the packages.

--ignore package

Directs pacman to ignore upgrades of package even if there is one available. Multiple packages can be specified by separating them with a comma.

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Ok, thank you for the replies.

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According to this
https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/ffmpeg

ffmpeg was updated on Tue Apr 25 00:21:40 2023 UTC

and ffmpeg-rpi was updated Thu Apr 13 18:20:37 2023 UTC

https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/ffmpeg-rpi

Maybe these updates broke something.

Pudge

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Days later, the problem has not been solved.
I cannot find any reference to recent problems with vid.stab or ffmpeg-rpi on the official form: https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/

At this point, all I have to do is to register on the Arch Linux ARM forum, report it and hope I am not treated terribly (in the official Arch Linux forum new users are bullied very often with RTFM and other such things!!! :sweat_smile:)

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If you are up for testing, could you consider replacing ffmpeg-rpi with the regular ffmpeg to see if you still have the problem with updating?

sudo pacman -Syu ffmpeg

This should ask you to replace ffmpeg-rpi and update your system.

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It worked! I had to uninstall first ffmpeg-rpi and vlc-rpi.
Then I installed ffmpeg and vlc.
Thank you.

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You should click on “Solution” under the post that gave you the solution, instead of renaming the thread… - the thread will be marked as solved then automatically. :wink:

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ok, thank you, done

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