Package 'libavresample-dev' has no installation candidate

[spacedriveapp]

Package 'libavresample-dev' has no installation candidate

[bolshoytoster]

@sommerper the package looks to come from the ubuntu ([security]) [universe] repo, Unfortunately, it's not in the impish repo (the one your popos is using).

You could either add the hirsute [universe] repo in your /etc/apt/sources.list (unrecommended) or you can get the package from the previously linked page and install it with apt install ./filename.deb, in which case you'll probably also have to install it's dependencies manually.

Unrelated, the reason libavresample isn't in the latest repos is because it's depracated in favour of libswresample, so should probably switch over. (@jamiepine)

[ykabusalah]

Could I try my hand at trying to solve this? @sommerper @bolshoytoster
And if so, could you assign me?

[bolshoytoster]

@ykabusalah if you mean switching from libavresample to libswresample then you can. I can't assign you though.

[sommerper]

@bolshoytoster Thanks for the suggestion but I'd rather not mess too much with my system. It'd be nice if you could fix it but if it's too much of a hassle then you can also just close the issue.

[oscartbeaumont]

@bolshoytoster moving away from libavresample is pretty out of our control as it's coming from ffmpeg-next. If anyone wants to do an upstream fix that would be appreciated but I don't think that it would be an easy change.

I don't really know a good solution to this. I ended up not being able to get the app running in PopOS and decided to add a Rust feature flag to disable ffmpeg as I don't need it for the part of the app I am testing.

[bolshoytoster]

@oscartbeaumont I think that as of version 5.0 it's already migrated from libavresample - PR on ffmpeg-sys-next (ffmpeg-next's main dependency).

Could try removing libavresample-dev from .github/scripts/setup-system.sh.

[oscartbeaumont]

It looks like we are already using a version of the crate with that PR merged so maybe give that a shot without that dependency.

[oscartbeaumont]

I gave it a shot by removing libavresample-dev from the dependencies and it seemed to work on PopOS. I updated the setup script so it doesn't include libavresample-dev on PopOS. It would be great if anyone else can give this a test on their machine to confirm it's not something special with my setup.

[voletro]

Tested on two PopOS machines, both installed ffmpeg deps and built ffmpeg-rust.