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masterofamn

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Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 28

[SOLVED] phonon-qt6-vlc install/update fails

Hi,

doing my daily update,  phonon-qt6-vlc is supposed to get installed together with phonon-qt6. This fails with loads of messages

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
phonon-qt6-vlc: /usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/phonon_vlc_qt.qm exists in filesystem (owned by phonon-qt5-vlc)
phonon-qt6-vlc: /usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/phonon_vlc_qt.qm exists in filesystem (owned by phonon-qt5-vlc)
phonon-qt6-vlc: /usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/phonon_vlc_qt.qm exists in filesystem (owned by phonon-qt5-vlc)
phonon-qt6-vlc: /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/phonon_vlc_qt.qm exists in filesystem (owned by phonon-qt5-vlc)
phonon-qt6-vlc: /usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/phonon_vlc_qt.qm exists in filesystem (owned by phonon-qt5-vlc)

Simply trying to uninstall phonon-qt5-vlc leads of course to dependency issues

checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing phonon-qt5-vlc breaks dependency 'phonon-qt5-backend' required by phonon-qt5

any fix for this yet?

Thanks in advance,

MoA

Last edited by masterofamn (2025-07-22 08:55:43)

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,261

Re: [SOLVED] phonon-qt6-vlc install/update fails

If you still need phonon-qt5, update it (and its backends) from AUR. If you don't, uninstall them.

masterofamn

Member

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] phonon-qt6-vlc install/update fails

OK, thanks for the immediate reply, Antonio!

I uninstalled them as no further dependency was detected.

jongeduard

Member

Registered: 2022-01-06

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] phonon-qt6-vlc install/update fails

It looks like I was having a similar issue, `phonon-qt5` and `phonon-qt5-vlc` where both installed as a circular dependency from each other. So I had to remove both at the same time.
I assume this is a bug.
It also looks like it's not resolved, because `phonon-qt6` and `phonon-qt6-vlc` are still circular dependency after updating.

Last edited by jongeduard (2025-07-23 17:42:03)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,960

Re: [SOLVED] phonon-qt6-vlc install/update fails

That's not a bug, the actual dependency is some form of a phonon-backend provider as phonon is useless without some form of a backend, in qt6 there's only the VLC one that's still officially maintained, but you could replace qt5-vlc with qt5-gstreamer or similar. (or pick qt6-mpv or so from the AUR)

Last edited by V1del (2025-07-24 15:03:46)