Pipewire Insallation Problem and Solution Choices From Zypper

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I’m doing a “sudo zypper dup” and got this. Why am I getting this? Somebody said that packman had this package shown at the website.

Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See ‘man zypper’ for more information about this command.
Computing distribution upgrade…

Problem: nothing provides ‘pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2 >= 0.3.74’ needed by the to be installed pipewire-aptx-0.3.74-1699.1.pm.1.i586
Solution 1: deinstallation of pipewire-aptx-0.3.72-1699.1.pm.1.x86_64
Solution 2: keep obsolete pipewire-aptx-0.3.72-1699.1.pm.1.x86_64
Solution 3: break pipewire-aptx-0.3.74-1699.1.pm.1.i586 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c/d/?] (c):

~> zypper lr -Eu
Repository priorities in effect: (See ‘zypper lr -P’ for details)
90 (raised priority) : 1 repository
99 (default priority) : 7 repositories

| Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI

—±---------------------------------±----------------------------------±--------±----------±--------±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed
2 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss | Main Repository (NON-OSS) (2023-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/history/20230718/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/
3 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Repository (OSS) (20230718) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/history/20230718/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
4 | download.opensuse.org-tumbleweed | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/
5 | games | games | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
7 | packman | Packman | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
9 | repo-openh264 | Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Tumb-> | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed
11 | system_packagemanager | system:packagemanager | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/packagemanager/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/

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Some of the pipewire packages seem to have the wrong architecture on your system.

Go to Yast2 → Software, type pipewire- in the search box and hit enter. Highlight the package, select the “Versions” tab at the bottom and select the correct computer architecture x86_64. Apply.

Check for all pipewire packages…

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Additionally your repo list is strange. You are using only history repos. You will never get any updates to your system in this way…
This system is tinkered in a really strange way…

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In particular, switching to these history repos with packman enabled is just asking for trouble.

Pick your poising (but not both):
a) history repos;
b) packman repos

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Ever heard about tumbleweed-cli?

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Yes, I installed that, but removed it. Did installing it mess things up? How can I fix it?

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They are all x86-64.

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I am unsure whether you really need package pipewire-aptx. It’s not installed here:

erlangen:~ # zypper if pipewire-aptx
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package pipewire-aptx:
--------------------------------------
Repository     : Packman
Name           : pipewire-aptx
Version        : 0.3.74-1699.1.pm.1
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : http://packman.links2linux.de
Installed Size : 39.3 KiB
Installed      : No
Status         : not installed
Source package : pipewire-aptx-0.3.74-1699.1.pm.1.src
Upstream URL   : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire
Summary        : PipeWire Bluetooth aptX codec plugin
Description    : 
    PipeWire media server Bluetooth aptX codec plugin.

erlangen:~ #

BTW: zypper readily installs the package, on infamous host erlangen of course:

erlangen:~ # zypper in pipewire-aptx
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  libopenaptx0 pipewire-aptx

2 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 44.1 KiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 65.4 KiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): 
Retrieving: libopenaptx0-0.2.0-1699.10.pm.53.x86_64 (Packman)                                                                                                                                                           (1/2),  20.2 KiB    
Retrieving: libopenaptx0-0.2.0-1699.10.pm.53.x86_64.rpm ..............................................................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving: pipewire-aptx-0.3.74-1699.1.pm.1.x86_64 (Packman)                                                                                                                                                           (2/2),  23.9 KiB    
Retrieving: pipewire-aptx-0.3.74-1699.1.pm.1.x86_64.rpm ..............................................................................................................................................................................[done]

Checking for file conflicts: .........................................................................................................................................................................................................[done]
(1/2) Installing: libopenaptx0-0.2.0-1699.10.pm.53.x86_64 ............................................................................................................................................................................[done]
(2/2) Installing: pipewire-aptx-0.3.74-1699.1.pm.1.x86_64 ............................................................................................................................................................................[done]
erlangen:~ #
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Can anyone tell me how to remove these history repositories and add the correct repositories?

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Yast - repositories - delete … history, add standard repo.

But it maybe a mirror issue.

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Thanks. I think it is working now. I deleted the repos with “history” in them and made sure the four main Tumbleweed repos were added from here: Package repositories - openSUSE Wiki

I did a “zypper dup” and rebooted and everything appears to be working.

I wonder if doing a snapper restore or loading a previous snapshot is why historical repos were being used.