Hi, since about two days I’ve been having trouble installing some (but not all) packages. It always gives a message similar to this: “nothing provides haiku>=r1~beta6_hrev59866_5-1 needed by [package name]”. Crucially, I also get this message when trying to update the system.
I am running Haiku r1 beta 5.
As you can see from the message, we are approaching beta 6 release. There might be few weeks of adjustments. In the meantime, you can try pkgman update in a terminal.
That works for simply updating, but when I tried installing software that way (yt-dlp) it still didn’t work.
It won’t work until yt-dlp (and other such packages) is updated to use the newer libraries. It will eventually. You just need some patience in the meantime.
Depends on how you update your system.
Currently:
Haiku R1B6-dev (hrev59899 x64)
yt_dlp-2026.03.17-1 from repository system is already installed
You could do this:
pkgman list-repos
pkgman drop-repo HaikuPorts
pkgman full-sync
Then, once you get things working and updated, add HaikuPorts repo.
Do I have to switch to the nightly builds to get that? Last time I tried those my deskbar disappeared.
Check what haiku packages are being updated for installion.
The packages will mention beta5 or beta6.
As mentioned, beta6 is around the corner, the main devs are doing a great job on puttings things up on their end.
Main problem for now is the switch to the newer libxml2 wich breaks quite some things, good new, we as the haikuports team have been busy with updating major parts to make sure things are on par with the new library, this means having a lot of packages needing a rebuild.
@waddlesplash already did a major revision bump on all packages relying on this, after that we are finishing up on the other parts (haikuports team).
Possible sollutions, uninstall fontconfig_devel and reinstall it (this will bring in the new libxml2), this worked for me on 32bit, then run a “pkgman full-sync”. Or “pkgman install libxml2..12” (this will replace the old libxml2 - still the same version), then try “pkgman full-sync”.
There will be some downfalls, on 32bit haikuwebkit is still broken for the new libxml2 and thus on a full-sync WebPosite will be gone, on 64bit webkit-gtk is still broken, so far major issue for me is that epiphany (Web) can’t be installed, some packages not reported by the buildmasters report are not shown and probably need a rebuild, we can’t tackle them without knowing, so reporting them would be nice so we can have a look at them.
EDIT: please only report things that broken after the full-sync, anything reporting a problem with some package that requires the old libxml2 (2.12.10) package would be usefull.
It seems that musicbrainz requires 2.10 and needs a rebuild. It’s needed by beton and QMPlay2.
FWIW, we now got a list of things that need to be updated (after a little bit of scripting over pkgman). Will open an issue over HaikuPorts so everyone can keep track of the progress there.
Full list of things we need to still work out: here.
~> pkgman full
100 % repochecksum-1 [65 байтов]
Проверка контрольной суммы репозитария Haiku…done.
100 % repochecksum-1 [64 байта]
Проверка контрольной суммы репозитария HaikuPorts…done.
Encountered problems:
problem 1: package libvisio-0.1.7-7 requires lib:libxml2>=16.1.3, but none of the providers can be installed
solution 1:
hrev59899 64 bit
~> pkgman install fontconfig_devel
100 % repochecksum-1 [65 байтов]
Проверка контрольной суммы репозитария Haiku…done.
100 % repochecksum-1 [64 байта]
Проверка контрольной суммы репозитария HaikuPorts…done.
Encountered problems:
problem 1: package fontconfig_devel-2.18.2-2 requires devel:libxml2>=16.1.3, but none of the providers can be installed
solution 1:
For those wanting to avoid github to see the list of stuff we know that needs updates/rebuilds, here’s the same list, but as a bpa.st (notice that the latter will not get updated, but if you see your problem listed there, then there’s no need to report it here or elsewhere).
