Ubuntu 24.04 next release has no libmpv1 but libmpv2

[stdevPavelmc]

System: Linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (new develop branch)
Error: libmpv1 not exist, they migrated to libmpv2

A search for libmpv results on this:

This refers to the .deb release on the homepage .

[linuxer0x42]

Same issue on Debian 12 Bookworm:

 ~/Downloads $ sudo dpkg -i stremio_4.4.168-1_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for yaslam:
Selecting previously unselected package stremio.
(Reading database ... 390153 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack stremio_4.4.168-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking stremio (4.4.168-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of stremio:
 stremio depends on nodejs; however:
  Package nodejs is not installed.
 stremio depends on libmpv1 (>= 0.30.0); however:
  Package libmpv1 is not installed.
 stremio depends on qml-module-qtwebchannel (>= 5.9.5); however:
  Package qml-module-qtwebchannel is not installed.
 stremio depends on libfdk-aac2 (>= 2.0.2); however:
  Package libfdk-aac2 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package stremio (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 stremio
 ✘ ~/Downloads $ sudo apt install nodejs libmpv1 qml-module-qtwebchannel libfdk-aac2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package libmpv1 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libmpv1' has no installation candidate
 ✘ ~/Downloads $

[laserburn]

Yup, definitely a problem. Now that new Ubuntu LTS is officially out, many will flock to it and discover that Stremio can't be installed. Must I polute the new Ubuntu 24.04 with flatpaks already? :(

[gustavo-dotcom]

Same issue here. Maybe launch Stremio as snap for Ubuntu?

[m1dhuns]

Same issue. Latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

[Corbachini33]

Same issue here. Maybe launch Stremio as snap for Ubuntu?

I've been using the flatpak until the deb is ready and its been working fine.

[m1dhuns]

I've been using the flatpak until the deb is ready and its been working fine.

Do you have a Nvidia GPU? Is Stremio able to use it for video decoding?

[Corbachini33]

I've been using the flatpak until the deb is ready and its been working fine.

Do you have a Nvidia GPU? Is Stremio able to use to for video decoding?

Haven't tried because the CPU I have is good enough for 4k. I know there were problems with NVIDIA and video decoding on Linux but I don't know if they also affect Stremio.

[richardiago]

Any updates on this one?

[kpjim]

As a workaround I was able to repackage the .deb, changing the dependencies in the process:
dpkg-deb -R stremio.deb tmpdir

Edit the tmpdir/DEBIAN/control file to change the libmpv1 dependeny to: libmpv2 (ubuntu should already have this package. You can/should remove the (>version) from the dependency as well).

At this point you also need to edit the stremio binary with hexedit (or a similar tool) so that you replace the loading of libmpv.so.1 with libmpv.so.2. Open the tmpdir/opt/stremio/stremio binary, search for the hex string: '6C 69 62 6D 70 76 2E 73 6F 2E 31' and replace the 31 with 32.
Edit: Instead of using a hex editor you can do something simpler with sed:
sed -i 's/\x6C\x69\x62\x6D\x70\x76\x2E\x73\x6F\x2E\x31/\x6C\x69\x62\x6D\x70\x76\x2E\x73\x6F\x2E\x32/g' tmpdir/opt/stremio/stremio

Finally repackage with:
dpkg-deb -b tmpdir stremio_dirty.deb

And install:
sudo dpkg -i stremio_dirty.deb.
Worked for me

[Kabir5296]

Run this bash script to simply install stremio without the libmpv dependency issue

https://github.com/Kabir5296/Stremio-Ubuntu24.04-Fix

[angeloscle]

sudo apt install flatpak
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak update
flatpak install flathub com.stremio.Stremio

[vejeta]

If you're having compilation issues, there's now a pre-built option available!

See PR #455 - I've added an APT repository that provides ready-to-use packages, eliminating the need to compile from source:

wget -qO - https://debian.vejeta.com/key.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/stremio-debian.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/stremio-debian.gpg] https://debian.vejeta.com trixie main non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stremio.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install stremio stremio-server

I build this to be included in the official Debian repositories. I have not tested it on Ubuntu, let me know how it goes, in case a build for Ubuntu needs to be made.

This should work out-of-the-box without any Qt5/build dependency issues. I have also updated the DEBIAN.md instructions.

[Cruel]

Great, now latest Ubuntu uses librubberband3 so that has to be patched too...