chromium (83.0.4103.116-1) and ffmpeg (7:4.3-2)

[Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I am here on Debian/testing AMD64.

The last days I tried to upgrade to chromium version 83.0.4103.116-1
from Debian/unstable.

This seems NOT possible:

# LC_ALL=C apt-get install -t unstable chromium
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 chromium : Depends: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.2)
 libavformat58 : Depends: libavcodec58 (= 7:4.3-2)
                 Depends: libchromaprint1 (>= 1.3.2) but it is not
going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I downloaded the chromium version 83.0.4103.116-1 deb file manually
and tried first:

# LC_ALL=C dpkg -i chromium_83.0.4103.116-1_amd64.deb
dpkg: regarding chromium_83.0.4103.116-1_amd64.deb containing chromium:
 chromium conflicts with libavcodec58 (= 7:4.3-2)
  libavcodec58:amd64 (version 7:4.3-2) is present and installed.

dpkg: error processing archive chromium_83.0.4103.116-1_amd64.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing chromium
Errors were encountered while processing:
 chromium_83.0.4103.116-1_amd64.deb

Then forced the installation:

# LC_ALL=C dpkg -i --force-all chromium_83.0.4103.116-1_amd64.deb

Starting chromium seems to work.

Last I run 'apt --fix-broken install' which tries to uninstall:

# LC_ALL=C apt --fix-broken install -s
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  kopete-data libavahi-gobject0 libavahi-ui-gtk3-0 libbctoolbox1
libbzrtp0 libcacard0 libgadu3 libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 libgvnc-1.0-0
libkopete1 libmediastreamer-base10 libortp13 libotr5
  libphodav-2.0-0 libphodav-2.0-common libspice-client-glib-2.0-8
libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 libturbojpeg0 libusbredirhost1
libusbredirparser1 libwinpr2-2 spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper
  vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-samba
vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  chromium ffmpeg gnome kopete libavdevice58 libfreerdp2-2
libk3b7-extracodecs libmediastreamer-voip10 mpv vinagre vlc
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv chromium [83.0.4103.116-1]
Remv ffmpeg [7:4.3-2]
Remv gnome [1:3.30+2]
Remv kopete [4:18.08.3-1]
Remv mpv [0.32.0-1]
Remv libavdevice58 [7:4.3-2]
Remv vinagre [3.22.0-7]
Remv libfreerdp2-2 [2.1.1+dfsg1-1+b1]
Remv libk3b7-extracodecs [20.04.1-1]
Remv libmediastreamer-voip10 [1:2.16.1-4+b2]
Remv vlc [3.0.11-1]

AFAICS chromium/unstable wants libavcodec-extra58 which replaces libavformat58.
That's the problem I guess.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Regards,
- Sedat -