Watching Netflix on Centos8
I Installed Centos 8.5.2111 on an Asus. I Tried to Watch Netflix on Firefox 91 but There Are Codecs and Agreements. I Set up Widevine and Cisco H264 Addons but...
I installed Centos 8.5.2111 on an Asus. I tried to watch netflix on Firefox 91 but there are codecs and agreements. I set up Widevine and Cisco H264 addons but it doesn't work. Googling indicates that I need ffmpeg and ffmpeg-devel. OK, I run these commands with the following results:
$ sudo yum install epel-release
[snip]
$ sudo yum localinstall
Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:36 ago on Tue 28 Dec 2021 04:58:28 AM PST.
rpmfusion-free-release-8.noarch.rpm 11 kB/s | 11 kB 00:01
Package rpmfusion-free-release-8-0.1.noarch is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
$ sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:51 ago on Tue 28 Dec 2021 04:58:28 AM PST.
Error:
Problem 1: conflicting requests
- nothing provides libSDL2-2.0.so.0()(64bit) needed by ffmpeg-4.2.5-2.el8.x86_64
Problem 2: package ffmpeg-devel-4.2.5-2.el8.x86_64 requires libavdevice(x86-64) = 4.2.5-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
- package ffmpeg-devel-4.2.5-2.el8.x86_64 requires libavdevice.so.58()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
- conflicting requests
- nothing provides libSDL2-2.0.so.0()(64bit) needed by libavdevice-4.2.5-2.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
$ sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel --skip-broken --nobest
Last metadata expiration check: 0:12:09 ago on Tue 28 Dec 2021 04:58:28 AM PST.
Dependencies resolved.
Problem 1: conflicting requests
- nothing provides libSDL2-2.0.so.0()(64bit) needed by ffmpeg-4.2.5-2.el8.x86_64
Problem 2: package ffmpeg-devel-4.2.5-2.el8.x86_64 requires libavdevice(x86-64) = 4.2.5-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
- package ffmpeg-devel-4.2.5-2.el8.x86_64 requires libavdevice.so.58()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
- conflicting requests
- nothing provides libSDL2-2.0.so.0()(64bit) needed by libavdevice-4.2.5-2.el8.x86_64
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
ffmpeg x86_64 4.2.5-2.el8 rpmfusion-free-updates 1.4 M
ffmpeg-devel x86_64 4.2.5-2.el8 rpmfusion-free-updates 909 k
libavdevice x86_64 4.2.5-2.el8 rpmfusion-free-updates 97 k
Transaction Summary
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Skip 3 Packages
Nothing to do.
Complete!
$
OK, refreshing my Netflix tab still doesn't work. I need libSDL2. The closest I could find was SDL and SDL-devel which I installed but it doesn't help install ffmpeg. What should I do?
1 Answer
I'm not an expert with rpm-based distros, but have you tried running
sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel --nobest?
Judging by the output, that one could posiibly work.
Also you probably lack some repositories (that's just a guess because you didn't post a yum repolist) Here's a guide I found, and judging by the output you provided, you didn't fulfill the requirements completely.
My guess is confirmed by this forum post, in which a CentOS user is having a similar problem with SDL2 libs, and he just had to enable the powertools repo thing.
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