[SOLVED] Issue Updating: phonon-qt6-mpv orphaned/unmaintained

General system Pacman & AUR helpers
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I got this this morning when checking for updates…

❯ up
[sudo] password for wombat: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros                          15.4 KiB   113 KiB/s 00:00 [------------------------------------] 100%
 core                                116.3 KiB   428 KiB/s 00:00 [------------------------------------] 100%
 extra                                 7.8 MiB  18.2 MiB/s 00:00 [------------------------------------] 100%
 multilib                            134.1 KiB   506 KiB/s 00:00 [------------------------------------] 100%
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Searching databases for updates...
 -> Orphan (unmaintained) AUR Packages: phonon-qt6-mpv
 -> Flagged Out Of Date AUR Packages: megasync-bin
 there is nothing to do
Looking for updates…

Nothing to do.
Nothing unused to uninstall
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So I thought I’d see what happens if I try to remove it…

❯ yay -Rns phonon-qt6-mpv
[sudo] password for wombat: 
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing phonon-qt6-mpv breaks dependency 'phonon-qt6-backend' required by phonon-qt6
 -> exit status 1
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Any ideas/suggestions?

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Switch to phonon-qt6-vlc. That’s the officially maintained package from KDE.

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That was going to be my first suggestion. Alternatively there’s the maintained phonon-qt6-mpv-git in the AUR.

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Perfect. Thanks, @Schlaefer. That did it.

Ran yay -S phonon-qt6-vlc then yay -Rns phonon-qt6-mpv. All is well.

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Won’t installing phonon-qt6-vlc install VLC? The reason I installed phonon-qt6-mpv was so I could uninstall the VLC package in the first place.

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I just ran yay -R phonon-qt6-mpv?

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Yes it is a dependency, but you don’t have to use it (and it does some things that mpv can’t).

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Had the same problem, glad I ran into this post. Fresh install from a week ago so I have no clue how this happened.

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A week ago, that package was in the repos and has since been dropped.

There is also a pinned post on this topic:

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Thank you. New here, but also new to this type of forum software. I did not have VLC installed but I don’t mind it either.

Thanks again.

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