Issues with updating libheif

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I am on a fedora 44 system in QubesOS and when attempting to perform the normal update process via the automatic updater I get the following errors:

Updating template-fedora-44
Refreshing package info
Removed 0 files, 0 directories (total of 0 B). 0 errors occurred.
Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package libheif-1.21.2-1.fc44.x86_64
  - package libheif-ffmpeg-1.23.4-6.fc44.x86_64 from updates requires libheif(x86-64) = 1.23.4-6.fc44, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package libheif-freeworld-1.21.2-3.fc44.x86_64 requires libheif(x86-64) = 1.21.2, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both libheif-1.23.4-6.fc44.x86_64 from updates and libheif-1.21.2-1.fc44.x86_64 from @System
  - cannot install both libheif-1.21.2-1.fc44.x86_64 from fedora and libheif-1.23.4-6.fc44.x86_64 from updates
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package libheif-freeworld-1.21.2-3.fc44.x86_64
Installed packages:
None
Updated packages:
None
Removed packages:
None

If I maually perform sudo dnf upgrade I get:

Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package libheif-1.21.2-1.fc44.x86_64
  - package libheif-ffmpeg-1.23.4-6.fc44.x86_64 from updates requires libheif(x86-64) = 1.23.4-6.fc44, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package libheif-freeworld-1.21.2-3.fc44.x86_64 requires libheif(x86-64) = 1.21.2, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both libheif-1.23.4-6.fc44.x86_64 from updates and libheif-1.21.2-1.fc44.x86_64 from @System
  - cannot install both libheif-1.23.4-6.fc44.x86_64 from updates and libheif-1.21.2-1.fc44.x86_64 from fedora
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package libheif-freeworld-1.21.2-3.fc44.x86_64

Package                Arch    Version                 Repository        Size
Skipping packages with conflicts:
 libheif               x86_64  1.23.4-6.fc44           updates        2.4 MiB
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 libheif-ffmpeg        x86_64  1.23.4-6.fc44           updates       32.0 KiB

Nothing to do.

I checked this post already but didn’t understand what to do. Does anyone understand and can explain to me simply what is wrong and what I can do?

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3

This will be fixed by the rpmfusion update scheduled for today.

Unfortunately, the fedora maintainer went updating the libheif without coordination, so this kind of issue appears from time to time, specially with complementary freeworld packages.

This should fix it (but only by the end of the day):
sudo dnf update --refresh

4

I kept getting that error repeatedly so today I did a sudo dnf rm libheif-freeworld as suggested in a different thread and now the update worked. Am I missing anything by not having that libheif-freeworld?

5

Only if some video doesn’t work anymore.

I just installed the new libheif-freeworld.

6

No, libheif is for “images” not video. So basically you need “dnf install @multimedia”

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It has - thank you.