So i cannot remove VLC from my Manjaro KDE install.
Can someone please help me understand why and how to properly do it?
Reason being i have to use mpv since VLC crashes when try to open videofile (tried a number of options in preferences, none of them worked. Using nvidia card). So i don’t want VLC at all in my system.
$ pacman -R vlc 1 ✘
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing vlc breaks dependency 'vlc' required by elisa
Tried with -Rs and -Rsn option as well, same output.
Well, if you absolutely have to have elisa , then you can’t remove it’s vlc dependency. You can try a different music player, if that is a possibility.
Preferences → Video → Output modules:
Select another module (not automatic) and test each until VLC no longer crashes; you probably don’t need to lose this fine player.
Otherwise, SMPlayer (which includes MPV) would be worth your attention.
Some apps like elisa, kaffeine, deepin-music, kasts, phonon-qt*… require libvlc library to play various media, but Arch Linux maintainers decided to not provide libvlc by splitting vlc package like how it’s done in other distros like Debian, so they linked the whole vlc as required dependency for those apps.
The same is happening with those Qt devs tools (Qt Creator, Designer, Assistant…) being shipped by default in Manjaro KDE, because Arch maintainers don’t care about providing standalone qdbus package.
No, don’t remove it. Simply hide the vlc player entry in Launcher and consider it as an installed library.
Plasma 6 desktop and its KDE apps (okular, gwenview, dolphin…) require phonon-qt6 which requires phonon-qt6-backend, and for Qt6 it seems the unmaintained Gstreamer was dropped and phonon-qt6-vlc is currently the only provider for phonon-qt6-backend.
If you don’t have vlc, you will need to install libvlc and many media plugins, not much difference in size, the first just appears on Launcher and the other one is hidden.
So simply hide it in Launcher and consider it as an installed library and be happy
Wow had no idea this was to be such a popular topic.
Anyways, seems like i have two options. Uninstall both elisa and vlc or just keep vlc well hidden.
I really do appreciate all the tips and answers. I’ll definitely fiddle around a bit to see what feels best .
Your options are: leave VLC the way it is (just ignore it), hide VLC, or switch DE, because if you want to continue with KDE then you cannot uninstall VLC.