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alchg

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Registered: 2022-08-01

Posts: 3

[solved]Firefox cannot be installed

The log is as follows.

[root@cdev32 user]# pacman -Sy firefox
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for jack:
:: Repository extra
   1) jack2  2) pipewire-jack

Enter a number (default=1):
warning: cannot resolve "librav1e.so=0-32", a dependency of "ffmpeg"
warning: cannot resolve "ffmpeg", a dependency of "firefox"
:: There are 11 providers available for ttf-font:
:: Repository extra
   1) gnu-free-fonts  2) noto-fonts  3) ttf-bitstream-vera  4) ttf-croscore  5) ttf-dejavu  6) ttf-droid  7) ttf-ibm-plex
   8) ttf-input  9) ttf-input-nerd  10) ttf-liberation  11) ttf-roboto

Enter a number (default=1):
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      firefox

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'librav1e.so=0-32' required by ffmpeg
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'ffmpeg' required by firefox

Last edited by alchg (2025-09-20 10:47:33)

abaumann

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Registered: 2019-11-14

Posts: 1,171

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Re: [solved]Firefox cannot be installed

yeah, this is like that for quite a while now. I cannot rebuild firefox currently.. You might be able to install it ignoring the librav1e dependency..

alchg

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Registered: 2022-08-01

Posts: 3

Re: [solved]Firefox cannot be installed

Thanks for the reply!
In my case, ignoring the package didn't work.
I solved it by temporarily enabling [extra-staging] and installing ffmpeg.