I installed vlc, seemed to install fine, but when firing up nothing happens. The cli for vlc seems to be there, but no graphical interface.
I looked on the web, someone said to install qt5-wayland, but that did not work.
Its a fresh install of RebornOS, no packeages apart from VLC have been added, and its not updated - I thought I would install one package to see if RebornOS was OK.
Thanks for any help/ideas.
blind
sudo pacman -S vlc-plugins-all
Try that cause there was a recent issue with VLC.
Thanks for the reply/help.
I tried what you suggest, but ran into another problem, not with vlc, but a conflicting packages message/error - so for now thats it, I dont know how to deal with that.
Thanks 
can you post the output you got so we can take a look?
Hi,
I got over that conflicy by using ‘pacman -Rns package’.
But that line you gave tries to upgrade the system, where I just want to get VLC to work. So I typed ‘pacman -S vlc-plugins-all’, which did not work.
So I was forced to use the full ;ine, to upgrade the system, but that didnt work either, as it downloade the packages then faild to upgrade as it complained about ‘linux-firmware-nvidia’. I removed nvidia, tried to upgrade again, but got same refusal/
Beginning to look like a lost cause, oity really as it seems quite fast and smooth.
All the best - blind.
That line does not try to update the system. you need -Syu NOT -S.
That said PLEASE launch Konsole and type inxi -F, then copy the output and post it like mine below. Place 3 ~~~ above and below the text from you Konsole output.
~~~
~ ❯ inxi -F 05:02:15 AM
System:
Host: CCCP Kernel: 6.15.9-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.4 Distro: RebornOS Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: X670 AORUS ELITE AX v: x.x
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: FB1
date: 05/22/2024
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2989 min/max: 403/5576 cores: 1: 2989 2: 2989 3: 2989
4: 2989 5: 2989 6: 2989 7: 2989 8: 2989 9: 2989 10: 2989 11: 2989 12: 2989
13: 2989 14: 2989 15: 2989 16: 2989
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] driver: nvidia
v: 575.64.05
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raphael driver: amdgpu
v: kernel
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,radeonsi,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 575.64.05
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 drivers: nvidia surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: lact, nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Creative Labs CA0108/CA10300 [Sound Blaster Audigy Series]
driver: snd_emu10k1
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio
[Rembrandt/Strix] driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-4: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.15.9-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.7 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8852CE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network
driver: rtw89_8852ce
IF: wlp14s0 state: up mac: 28:d0:43:0e:4d:c6
Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169
IF: enp15s0 state: down mac: 10:ff:e0:38:db:01
Bluetooth:
Device-1: IMC Networks Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb type: USB
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 state: up address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 43.66 TiB used: 22.04 TiB (50.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P3SSD8 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 EVO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
ID-3: /dev/nvme2n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000T500SSD8 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-4: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: Expansion HDD size: 20.01 TiB
type: USB
ID-5: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: Expansion HDD size: 20.01 TiB
type: USB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 463.73 GiB used: 119.47 GiB (25.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 2.24 GiB used: 191.6 MiB (8.3%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 463.73 GiB used: 119.47 GiB (25.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2
ID-4: /var/log size: 463.73 GiB used: 119.47 GiB (25.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: 31.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 61.76 GiB used: 9.9 GiB (16.0%)
Processes: 591 Uptime: 21m Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.38
~~~
Hi,
OK - jere is what you wanted - it was executed as user:-
~~~
System:
Host: me-b450mds3hv2 Kernel: 6.10.1-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: RebornOS Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450M DS3H V2 v: x.x
serial: BIOS: American Megatrends LLC. v: F62
date: 01/27/2022
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4500 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1729 min/max: 400/4208 cores: 1: 2994 2: 2994 3: 3053
4: 400 5: 400 6: 2920 7: 400 8: 3399 9: 2994 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Turks PRO [Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550 / R5 230] driver: radeon
v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1 driver: X:
loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,r600,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.1.4-arch1.2 renderer: AMD TURKS
(DRM 2.50.0 / 6.10.1-arch1-1 LLVM 18.1.8)
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series]
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.10.1-arch1-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.1 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: d8:5e:d3:fa:fd:ba
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.5 TiB used: 8.6 GiB (0.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: HDWA120 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: HD753LJ size: 698.64 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 10 GiB used: 8.32 GiB (83.2%) fs: reiserfs dev: /dev/sdb14
ID-2: /home size: 9.76 GiB used: 293 MiB (2.9%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sdb15
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 27.5 C mobo: 25.0 C gpu: radeon temp: 31.5 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.7 GiB used: 1.22 GiB (33.1%)
Processes: 311 Uptime: 2m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.35
~~~
BTW I realise that -S does not update,
Another BTW I tried again ‘pacman -Syu vlc-plugins-all’ with agan no success. This is the end output:-
‘error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
pacman -Syu vlc-plugins-all 9.91s user 27.40s system 13% cpu 4:37.06 total’
Hope it help.
blind
I would wipe the drive / partition and install selecting Plasma not XFCE.
Hi,
Yeah, I tried installing using the installation from web - but that
failed, so I went with installing from the install medium - all seemed
fine.
But I took the opportunity of using pacmam to find if rebornos has the
packages I use - it does not.
I dont know whether they could be installed some other way, but I dont
think I will be making that effort.
All the best.
All I know is I just did fresh installs of Reborn on my and my roomates machines and when the VLC issue came up I just install what I suggested above.
Easier workaround is to simply install smplayer and smplayer-skins. I have been using it instead of VLC for years. No fuss no muss.
The error you get while installing requires manual intervention:
Check out this link while explains how to fix the problem: Arch Linux - News: linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
Yeah, I thought of smplayer aswell.
BTW have had trouble with other distros, usually fue to gtk2 and qt5-style-plugins not working.
all the best - blind
Thanks for the links - I’m sure to try what is suggested next time I am using Reborn:)
With the lastest upgrade was able to download and get VLC running - so I suppose this is solved 