Retroarch fails to run on Bookworm

[Silent-Hunter]

Trying to run Retroarch gives the error:
retroarch: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

However, it is not installable:

 sudo apt install libavcodec58
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libavcodec58 : Depends: libaom0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installable
                Depends: libcodec2-0.9 (>= 0.9.2) but it is not installable
                Depends: libdav1d4 (>= 0.2.1) but it is not installable
                Depends: libvpx6 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
                Depends: libwebp6 (>= 0.5.1) but it is not installable
                Depends: libx264-160 (>= 2:0.160.3011+gitcde9a93) but it is not installable
                Depends: libx265-192 (>= 3.2) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I understand if it's not compatible with Bookworm yet.

[jmcerrejon]

@foxhound311 rescue me!

[jmcerrejon]

It seems the issue is due RetroArch and lib deps from RPi OS 64-bit I can't handle. We need to wait for the guys to update the repository. I'll let the issue opened to remember this problem.

[Silent-Hunter]

Bookworm seems to be using the newer libavcodec59 instead of libavcodec58. Wouldn't that mean building retroarch against libavcodec59?

[jmcerrejon]

Bookworm seems to be using the newer libavcodec59 instead of libavcodec58. Wouldn't that mean building retroarch against libavcodec59?

Maybe @foxhound311 can check it out

[Rak1ta]

Is there anything I can do now to get the emulator to start?

[Silent-Hunter]

Is there anything I can do now to get the emulator to start?

None, that I can tell. I think we need it to be recompiled against libavcodec59.