Can't update Jellyfin about dietpi

[MichaIng]

Right, apt upgrade will keep back upgrades, if those would require the removal of another package, like jellyfin-ffmpeg5 here. So an apt full-upgrade would be required. apt install jellyfin should however offer you the same dependency switch. I wonder why Jellyfin guys do not simply name it jellyfin-ffmpeg5, and have the FFmpeg version part of the package version string (seems to be the case already), to avoid this hassle.

The issues you linked do not apply anymore: At that time, the meta package jellyfin did still depend on jellyfin-ffmpeg5, which indeed made an upgrade impossible without removing the meta package. This is not the case anymore, now only the interactive confirmation to remove the old package is needed.

I will add a DietPi patch to to this upgrade for everyone who still has jellyfin-ffmpeg5 installed: 5e01b39

[gioxx]

Ciao @MichaIng.
As mentioned above, I was sure it was a very dumb problem to solve but -- banally -- I had tried to run apt upgrade since I was presented with an upgrade to run when I logged into DietPi, and then I couldn't complete the operation because of ffmpeg5 as you noted.

I have now uninstalled ffmpeg5 and correctly updated to version 6 and the latest Jellyfin package.

Thank you very much!

[WolfganP]

Yeah... kind of messy situation caused by jellyfin-ffmpeg5 / 6 pkg:

$ sudo apt policy jellyfin
jellyfin:
  Installed: 10.8.13-1
  Candidate: 10.9.2+deb12
  Version table:
     10.9.2+deb12 500
        500 https://repo.jellyfin.org/debian bookworm/main armhf Packages
 *** 10.8.13-1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

but it may be resolved by:

$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libass9
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  jellyfin-ffmpeg5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  jellyfin-ffmpeg6 ocl-icd-libopencl1
The following packages will be upgraded:
  jellyfin
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 8,032 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Some comments on https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/13ieki7/installing_jellyfinffmpeg6_on_linux/ and jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg#243

[MichaIng]

The error message says everything, isn't it 🙂?

jellyfin-ffmpeg6 : Conflicts: jellyfin-ffmpeg5 but 5.1.4-3-bullseye is to be installed

You do not need to install jellyfin-ffmpeg* explicitly, the jellyfin meta package depends on the correct version of it:

apt-mark auto jellyfin-ffmpeg5
apt install jellyfin

This should offer you to uninstall jellyfin-ffmpeg5 while having jellyfin-ffmpeg6 as new dependency installed. Use apt install jellyfin or apt upgrade only then, and let APT take care the FFmpeg plugin.