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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

faad2-devel catch-22

faad2-devel broke vlc, but pacman won't remove it when i try switching back to faad2 b/c of the dependencies. strange that i could remove faad2 when installing faad2-devel, but not the other way around -- i guess that's why it's unstable.

is there any way to revert back to faad2 cleanly, without uninstalling all the dependencies and having to reinstall them? :?:

[10] root:/home/sero # pacman -S faad2
:: faad2 conflicts with faad2-devel. Remove faad2-devel? [Y/n]  

Remove:  faad2-devel

Targets: faad2-2.0-8

Total Package Size:   0.3 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] 

checking package integrity... done.
error: this will break the following dependencies:
  faad2-devel: is required by ffmpeg
  faad2-devel: is required by mplayer
  faad2-devel: is required by avidemux
  faad2-devel: is required by mpd
  faad2-devel: is required by gst-plugins-faad

[11] root:/home/sero # pacman -Rc faad2-devel

Targets: dvdrip mplayer-plugin vlc k3b transcode xvidcap gst-plugins-faad mpd avidemux 
          mplayer ffmpeg faad2-devel 

Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] 

...do i? :shock:

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: faad2-devel catch-22

no you don't, as this is a shorter way:

pacman -R --nodeps faad2-devel
pacman -S faad2

edit: the case is that faad2-devel provides faad2, which is required by those programs. --nodeps option of pacman will skip dependency test. Installing faad2  after this will provide faad2 again, so no problems

slackhack

Member

Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: faad2-devel catch-22

cheers, that did it. i thought nodeps was strictly an -S option. thanks.