Troubles Installing Multimedia Codecs

Did a fresh tumbleweed install with yesterday’s image.
After successful installation and zypper dup , I wanted to add packman’s codecs (as described on Portal:Tumbleweed - openSUSE Wiki)

Repo is there:

localhost:~ # zypper lr --uri -P
# | Alias               | Name                        | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | URI
--+---------------------+-----------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 | packman-essentials  | packman-essentials          | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   90     | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials
1 | openSUSE-20230127-0 | openSUSE-20230127-0         | No      | ----      | ----    |   99     | hd:/?device=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Verbatim_STORE_N_GO_07990A0B89058111-0:0-part2
3 | repo-debug          | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Debug   | No      | ----      | ----    |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
4 | repo-non-oss        | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/
5 | repo-oss            | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
6 | repo-source         | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Source  | No      | ----      | ----    |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
7 | repo-update         | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/

But I got quite some error messages when switching to packman (yesterday, and also after today’s zypper dup to 20230128:

localhost:~ # zypper dup --from packman-essentials --allow-vendor-change
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...
7 Problems:
Problem: nothing provides 'libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.1()(64bit)' needed by the to be installed vlc-beta-20221231.3c802935d0-31.6.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides 'Mesa = 22.3.3' needed by the to be installed Mesa-gallium-22.3.3-340.1.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides 'libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.1()(64bit)' needed by the to be installed vlc-beta-20221231.3c802935d0-31.6.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides 'Mesa = 22.3.3' needed by the to be installed Mesa-dri-22.3.3-340.1.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides 'libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.1()(64bit)' needed by the to be installed vlc-noX-3.0.18-7.6.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides 'libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.1()(64bit)' needed by the to be installed vlc-beta-20221231.3c802935d0-31.6.x86_64
Problem: nothing provides 'libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.1()(64bit)' needed by the to be installed vlc-beta-20221231.3c802935d0-31.6.x86_64

Problem: nothing provides 'libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.1()(64bit)' needed by the to be installed vlc-beta-20221231.3c802935d0-31.6.x86_64
 Solution 1: deinstallation of vlc-codec-gstreamer-3.0.18-4.3.x86_64
 Solution 2: keep obsolete vlc-noX-3.0.18-4.3.x86_64
 Solution 3: break vlc-beta-20221231.3c802935d0-31.6.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

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

I also tried it the opi way, but the same issue.
(Actually, there are some more conflicts/issues ahead if I chose to skip)

I guess this might be related to a bad timing issue and it will be gone after a few days of waiting for packman to catch up. But how can I tell what is the real issue (me, tumbleweed, or packman)?

Does packman provide some information about its compatibility and compilation status?

I had the exact same issue, I tried using different versions of VLC and eventually X broke every time I tried to play a video. I have given up and moved back to Arch.

@KWizzz it’s a packman issue, the drivers are failing to build…

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Do you know if there is any way to see that it’sa packman issue? Something like an online build status or blog?

See build status:

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