Why does "sudo zypper up" result in The following package is going to be REMOVED: ffmpeg"?

[6tr6tr]

All I did was type “sudo zypper up” and LEAP says it’s going to remove ffmpeg. Why would it do this?

Using:
KDE 5.5.5
openSUSE LEAP 64bit
Kernel: 4.6.2-6 default

16 GB RAM
Intel i-7-6600U (4-core)

[Fraser_Bell]

Did you install your Multimedia according to caf’s guide? Did you remember to do your repo switch to Packman?

[6tr6tr]

@Fraser_Bell

Did you install your Multimedia according to caf’s guide? Did you remember to do your repo switch to Packman?

yes to both questions

[nrickert]

@6tr6tr

All I did was type “sudo zypper up” and LEAP says it’s going to remove ffmpeg. Why would it do this?

Checking here, I see that I do not have “ffmpeg” installed. But I do have “ffmpeg-3.1” installed. That is to say, the “-3.1” seems to be part of the package name, rather than part of the version number.

So maybe look carefully. Perhaps it wants to uninstall “ffmpeg” but to also install “ffmpeg-3.1”. That probably happened here recently.

[deano_ferrari]

@nrickert

Checking here, I see that I do not have “ffmpeg” installed. But I do have “ffmpeg-3.1” installed. That is to say, the “-3.1” seems to be part of the package name, rather than part of the version number.

So maybe look carefully. Perhaps it wants to uninstall “ffmpeg” but to also install “ffmpeg-3.1”. That probably happened here recently.

I can verify that this was the case.

@6tr6tr: Let it proceed and you’ll end up with the “ffmpeg-3.1-…” package as nrickert has described.