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#1

Hi,

When trying to update a message is displayed:

package dependency could not be found.
More information is available in the detailed report.

I press the detail button and a message appears:

There is no update candidate for libavformat55-2.1.1-2.1.x86_64

Any clue ?

Regards

Agunet

#2

You are more likely to get help if you indicate your opensuse version, and say what it is that you were trying to do.

Checking here (using opensuse 13.1), I see that libavformat55 version 2.1.1-3.3-8x6_64 is installed, but the packman repo has version 2.1.1-3-8x6_64. I am not seeing any problems over this.

Presumably, you are not running 13.1, since your version number is a bit different.

#3

Uninstall libavfilter3 (you should have that option in zypper’s conflict resolution dialog).
ffmpeg has been upgraded to 2.2.0, and this version comes with libavfilter4. But this conflicts with libavfilter3 which is no longer needed nor available.

#4

I’m usiing opensuse 3.1 and actually I’m having problems updating 3 packages via apper:

libacodec55 don’t find the package libavcodec55-2.1.1-2.1.x86_64
libaformat55 don’t find the package libavformat55-2.1.1-2.1.x86_64
libpostproc52 don’t find the package libpostproc52-2.1.1-2.1.x86_64

I really don’t know what to do with these packages.

Any help ?

Regards

agunet74

#5

Use YaST. Apper is a second best. It might be useful for those poor KDE users that do not have the benefit of SUSE/openSUSE.

#6

Apper is useless when it finds problems. It just refused to update.

In that case, use Yast online update. It give several choices for possible actions. It is usually easy to see which choice to make. But you can ask here if unsure.

Or, use “zypper up” from a root command line. It, too, will present choices, though in a command-line interface manner.

If I there are many updates, I usually take the choice “do not install xxx”. That allows most of the updates to install. Then I restart Yast online update, with only the problem updates remaining. And then I look more closely at the problems and solution choices.

#7

No. YaST->Online updates won’t update packages from Packman.

Either use “zypper up” or YaST->Software Management.

Or uninstall libavfilter3 via YaST or zypper as I suggested already, and Apper should be able to update all packages.
Apper is not able to resolve conflicts, but by uninstalling libavfilter3, you remove the conflict.