Conflicts between attempted installs while installing gstreamer plugin on Centos

Question

I am trying to install gstreamer-ffmpeg package for opencv c++ coding purpose on Centos-6.7

When I type;

sudo yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg*

it gives error:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/lib64/libavutil.so.50 conflicts between attempted installs of libavutil50-0.7.16-33.el6.x86_64 and ffmpeg-compat-0.6.7-1.el6.x86_64

However there is no such file;

[mg@MgCentOS Desktop]$ locate libavutil.so.50
[mg@MgCentOS Desktop]$ 

And also I cannot remove, because it is not installed;

[mg@MgCentOS Desktop]$ sudo yum remove libavutil*
[sudo] password for mg: 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: libavutil*
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.rackdc.com
 * epel: mirror.de.leaseweb.net
 * extras: ftp.itu.edu.tr
 * remi-safe: rpms.remirepo.net
 * rpmforge: apt.sw.be
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: fedora.tu-chemnitz.de
 * update: mirror.rackdc.com
Package(s) libavutil* available, but not installed.
No Packages marked for removal

Could you please help me how I can solve this issue, and install gstreamer plugin?

Solution

This is old, but I've had the same issue installing vlc.

You can have a library installed "outside of yum", with rpm, so one should check for that too:

rpm -qa | grep libavutil

then remove if found (I had to also remove libswscale):

rpm -e libswscale0-0.7.16-33.el6.x86_64
rpm -e libavutil50-0.7.16-33.el6.x86_64

This did it for me.

Comments

[cristi]

Then try to find if you have ffmpeg-compat already installed

[rogerdpack]

If you manually install some of the packages and dependencies it might work, seems like something's wrong with the packaging tho: bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13802

[goGud]

Did you really read my question?

[cristi]

Sorry :D. That was awkward (actually reading your question).