Problem with update

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openSUSE 13.2 KDE 64 bit

Update shows as openSUSE-2016-37

Won’t install due to missing dependency, although a search for that dependency shows it is indeed installed on my machine.

Error says:
vlc-noX-2.2.1-305.1.x86_64 requires libmatroska.so.6(V_1.4.1)(64bit), but this requirement cannot be provided

Looked it up in yast software management and it shows the very same one as installed. From there I searched in dolphin for it exactly where is shows that it should be located in /usr/lib64 and I can see it there myself
/usr/lib64/libmatroska.s0.6

I don’t even know what the update is for, click the + next to it and just sits there with that icon spinning and says querying info but never displays any details.

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Hi
Have a look at this thread;
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/512790-Security-Update-openSUSE-2016-37-Fails-with-libmatroska-so-6(V_1-4-1)(64bit)

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Thanks very much!

Any idea if it’s a very important update that shouldn’t be ignored?
If I can just ignore it until there is a fix then that is fine. Otherwise, if it’s very important I’ll go ahead and ‘downgrade’ vlc in order for the update to take.

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Hi
I would downgrade to get everything aligned…

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That did the trick, went into yast and add/remove software. Searched vlc and all the installed entries showed in red text. Clicked the main program one and on the version tab changed it to the ‘downgraded’ version. There were a few dependencies that also needed to downgrade with it, but no real problem.
From there had the software updater try running said update again and it went with no trouble at all.

Thanks very much again for the help!! :smiley:

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Really ?e

Have tried to downgrade vlc and gstreamer to resolve conflicts and both try to resolve dependencies by removing ALL 64bit libraries and apps to be replaced with 32 bit libraries and NO apps. 13.2 might be broken, first time it wiped KDE and left me an ugly login with not even a terminal or shutdown. Second time it wanted to delete kernel files too but I was able to abort before it did anything. Third time downgrade kde4 to kde3 and remove all my programs I fought to install.

If there is a secret to downgrade in 13.2 or better yet prevent updates from changing installed apps and libraries I’d sure like to know about it.

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VLC and gstreamer work fine in 13.2 but all parts must come from packman if you wish to use proprietary codecs. Some from packman some from openSUSE will not work all multimedia must come from packman. You can do this by a vendor switch in yast or via zypper. If you do not know how show us zypper lr -d

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Here is my repos, instructions said to install from kde-extra, kde-apps, packman and when all is working disable all but 4 orig main groups but been having trouble getting anything to work.

# | Alias               | Name                         | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                        | Service
--+---------------------+------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | KDE:Extra           | KDE:Extra                    | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_13.2/        |        
2 | apps-kde            | apps-kde                     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Applications/openSUSE_13.2/ |        
3 | ftp.gwdg.de-suse    | Packman Repository           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_13.2/                   |        
4 | multimedia          | multimedia                   | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/apps/openSUSE_13.2/  |        
5 | multimedia-libs     | multimedia-libs              | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_13.2/  |        
6 | repo-non-oss        | openSUSE-13.2-Non-Oss        | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/non-oss/               |        
7 | repo-oss            | openSUSE-13.2-Oss            | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/                   |        
8 | repo-update         | openSUSE-13.2-Update         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2/                                  |        
9 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-13.2-Update-Non-Oss | Yes     | ( p) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/                          |

And thankyou for responding to me

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Remove multimedia repo number 5

then do

zypper dup --from 3

This will switch stuff to the packman repo

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Fantastic! That did the trick zypper reported 18000 conflicts, removing 5 packages , installing 93 updates to resolve all conflicts
Then stated 15 running programs are using libraries that no longer exist restart of processes may not be possible use shutdown reboot from console.

after reboot:
amorok reports codec for gstreamer plug-in cannot be resolved. Changed from gstreamer to vlc backend under audio and amorok crashes.
kwave can’t edit .wav files
No audio in cinerella – no devices present
pulseaudio and kmix work with both hdmi digital audio and PCM analog audio
vlc player works fine
dragonplayer can’t play audio
kaffiene plats audio perfectly
phonon recognizes both sound cards hdmi and PCH
gtk-recordmydesktop Removed
recorditnow is untested presently
audio-recorder is untested.

So I am getting there 5 apps work with full audio, 3 don’t work, 2 untested, and one video editor that does video but no sound.

Thankyou so much

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Since you had the multimedia repo active it is possible that some things did not get shifted to packman you can go to yast software management and make sure all those things that do not run are from packman use the version tab at bottom right

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Seems all is fine with repo versions

Can’t find it now but someone responded that phonon-vlc-backend does not work with my versions conbinations and results in crashes of kde apps and to delete it … so I did and all programs except Amorok, kwave, and dragonplayer work. Cinelerra video editor runs without audio. Audio-recorder and recorditnow can’t find any audio device.

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Use pavuaudio to set the sound source. Also some programs have options to which sound system to use.

Also there are settings in KDE to set the sound backend. Be sure that it is set to use gstreamer and not VLC Nad be sure that all gstreamer packages are from packman.

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Pavucontrol is set to device 2 analog PCH device, Alsa is set to PCH device and pulse audio is on with phonon-gstreamer-backend but cinelerra insists there are no audio devices on the system but Live works just fine made 10 short video presentations last night without problem. Audio-recorder still can’t find audio but record in audiocity and live and simplescreenrecord all work perfect. So I can remove cinelarra, Audio-recorder and be back to dealing with the rest of my set-up.

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Some programs insist on using the raw audio device there are some libraries that act as shims such as alsa-plugins-pulse, pulse-module-jack, etc also there may be 32 bit version which some programs may require.

Those that want to go direct to hardware you can start with

padsp programname

This make the program think it connects to /dev/dsp