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I want to run youtube-dl but I have to install ffmpeg in Fedora.
What am I doing wrong, youtube-dl is installed.
root@fedora mickey]# dnf install ffmpeg
Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:40 ago on Tue 28 Nov 2023 02:44:50 PM EST.
Error:
Problem: problem with installed package libswscale-free-5.1.2-12.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-12.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-5.1.2-3.fc37.x86_64 requires ffmpeg-libs(x86-64) = 5.1.2-3.fc37, but none of the providers can be installed
- conflicting requests
- package ffmpeg-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64 requires ffmpeg-libs(x86-64) = 5.1.4-1.fc37, but none of the providers can be installed
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-12.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.2-1.fc37.x86_64
- package ffmpeg-libs-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64 conflicts with libswscale-free provided by libswscale-free-5.1.4-1.fc37.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
[root@fedora mickey]#
You may wish to try yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl, which it replaced. Those conflicts don't show up when I try:
Code:
# dnf install yt-dlp-bash-completion yt-dlp
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:00 ago on Tue 28 Nov 2023 05:49:56 PM EST.
Dependencies resolved.
==========================================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
==========================================================================================================================
Installing:
yt-dlp-bash-completion noarch 2023.10.07-1.fc37 updates 12 k
Installing dependencies:
libtomcrypt x86_64 1.18.2-15.fc37 fedora 388 k
libtommath x86_64 1.2.0-11.fc37 updates 63 k
python3-brotli x86_64 1.0.9-9.fc37 fedora 319 k
python3-certifi noarch 2021.10.8-3.fc37 fedora 16 k
python3-mutagen noarch 1.45.1-8.fc37 fedora 504 k
python3-pycryptodomex x86_64 3.19.0-1.fc37 updates 1.3 M
python3-websockets x86_64 10.3-3.fc37 fedora 195 k
yt-dlp noarch 2023.10.07-1.fc37 updates 5.7 M
Transaction Summary
==========================================================================================================================
Install 9 Packages
Total download size: 8.4 M
Installed size: 29 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
Thanks guys for your help, I downloaded a 8.0GiB file of Flute Listening Music.
yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HL0K70h93U 11 Hrs. of playing, And played it VLC but had small pauses in Music of about 2 seconds while playing.
Thanks again for your help.
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