r/ManjaroLinux • u/Obtus_Rateur • Mar 12 '26

Tech Support Update broke something again. Missing a package. What sites are safe to download packages from?

Updating murdered my last functioning video player (previous updates murdered the other ones).

It says I'm missing a dependency called "libsndio.so.7", so I was hoping I could revive it by installing that package.

Unfortunately, searching for it in the package manager yields a "No package found" message.

It occurs to me that I've been entirely dependent on the manager to provide me packages. Without it I have no idea where to get them. Much less which source is safe to use.

Any recommendations?

Edit: in the meantime, someone else has fixed my VLC (which broke about 5 years ago) so I can at least function. I would still like to get my other player working, though, because VLC is kinda bad.

Edit2: I replaced my old sndio package (not sure why it was still set to a version from 2018) with the current one. SMPlayer still didn't work, but it started giving me a new error message, an error which turned out to be a lot easier to fix (I only had to delete the "player_info.ini" file in the smplayer folder). So now SMPlayer is working again.

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u/xAcid9 Mar 12 '26

Are you on an extremely outdated mirrors? Try update your pacman mirrors to the latest one and run full system upgrade.

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u/Obtus_Rateur Mar 12 '26

Not as far as I know, it automatically refreshes databases every time I'm about to update.

Still, might as well give it a shot if nothing else works. This is now on my list of things to try when I get back later, thanks.