Arch Linux

kerneldeimos

Member

Registered: 2024-07-11

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] phonon-qt5-vlc - circular dependency?

Turns out I just had to remove them both simultaneously:

sudo pacman -R phonon-qt5-vlc phonon-qt5

I didn't realize the behavior of that was different. There's a dupe of this in "Applications & Desktop Environments"

----- pretend this is a horizontal line -----

I haven't used this computer for a while now, I'm trying to set it back up, so it hasn't been updated in 4 months (2025-04-07T01:47:46-0400).

My update didn't get very far...

[edube@unit1 ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for edube: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace ttf-font-awesome with extra/woff2-font-awesome? [Y/n]  
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: phonon-qt6-vlc-0.12.0-5 and phonon-qt5-vlc-0.12.0-2 are in conflict. Remove phonon-qt5-vlc? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing libxml2 (2.14.5-1) breaks dependency 'libxml2.so=2-64' required by electron33
:: removing phonon-qt5-vlc breaks dependency 'phonon-qt5-backend' required by phonon-qt5

If I try to remove the affecting package manually, I get what looks like a catch-22.

[edube@unit1 ~]$ sudo pacman -R phonon-qt5
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing phonon-qt5 breaks dependency 'phonon-qt5' required by phonon-qt5-vlc
[edube@unit1 ~]$ sudo pacman -R phonon-qt5-vlc
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing phonon-qt5-vlc breaks dependency 'phonon-qt5-backend' required by phonon-qt5

Last edited by kerneldeimos (2025-08-08 00:26:39)

sipak

Member

Registered: 2019-02-03

Posts: 50

Re: [SOLVED] phonon-qt5-vlc - circular dependency?

pacman -Rcs phonon-qt5-vlc phonon-qt5

phonon-qt5-vlc requires an actual implementation of it. But phonon-qt5 is no longer in repos. phonon-qt6 is. Is this Arch or something else?
Keep your system up-to-date! Particularly if using a rolling-release distro like Arch.

Last edited by sipak (2025-08-10 01:28:28)

---

A problem to do what everybody else does without questioning. A danger to go against the way things are just because. Too much or too little, ivory towers of perfection or functional mess... Balance is what this world needs. Selective, not the middle ground. Objectivity and idealism, but within a pragmatic scope. - Minimalism is achieved through efficiency, not deficiency.

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,857

Re: [SOLVED] phonon-qt5-vlc - circular dependency?

If you used Arch with KDE for longer than KDE 6 (so more than 1½ years) you could definitely still have that dependency installed.