Folks

While trying to add a second desktop to my Centos7 installation (I had GNOME3, wanted to add KDE as an alternate), the install failed:

yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

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--> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: systemd-python-208-20.el7.x86_64 (base) Requires: systemd = 208-20.el7 Installed: systemd-208-20.el7_1.5.x86_64 (@updates) systemd = 208-20.el7_1.5 Available: systemd-208-20.el7.x86_64 (base) systemd = 208-20.el7 Error: Package: 32:bind-libs-9.9.4-18.el7.x86_64 (base) Requires: bind-license = 32:9.9.4-18.el7 Installed: 32:bind-license-9.9.4-18.el7_1.1.noarch (@updates) bind-license = 32:9.9.4-18.el7_1.1 Available: 32:bind-license-9.9.4-18.el7.noarch (base) bind-license = 32:9.9.4-18.el7 Error: Package: libreport-2.1.11-21.el7.centos.0.4.x86_64 (base) Requires: libreport-filesystem = 2.1.11-21.el7.centos.0.4 Installed: libreport-filesystem-2.1.11-23.el7.centos.0.1.x86_64 (@updates) libreport-filesystem = 2.1.11-23.el7.centos.0.1 Available: libreport-filesystem-2.1.11-21.el7.centos.0.4.x86_64 (base) libreport-filesystem = 2.1.11-21.el7.centos.0.4 Error: Package: 1:cups-client-1.6.3-17.el7.x86_64 (base) Requires: cups-libs(x86-64) = 1:1.6.3-17.el7 Installed: 1:cups-libs-1.6.3-17.el7_1.1.x86_64 (@updates) cups-libs(x86-64) = 1:1.6.3-17.el7_1.1 Available: 1:cups-libs-1.6.3-17.el7.x86_64 (base) cups-libs(x86-64) = 1:1.6.3-17.el7 Error: Package: 1:cups-1.6.3-17.el7.x86_64 (base) Requires: cups-libs(x86-64) = 1:1.6.3-17.el7 Installed: 1:cups-libs-1.6.3-17.el7_1.1.x86_64 (@updates) cups-libs(x86-64) = 1:1.6.3-17.el7_1.1 Available: 1:cups-libs-1.6.3-17.el7.x86_64 (base) cups-libs(x86-64) = 1:1.6.3-17.el7 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Trying the --skip-broken option gave a large set of protected multilib version errors, so it didn't work either. The following is the repo list:

[root@xxxxx ~]# yum repolist Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• base: mirror.pac-12.org
• centosplus: mirrors.unifiedlayer.com
• epel: mirror.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net
• extras: mirror.pac-12.org
• updates: mirrors.xmission.com

1452 packages excluded due to repository priority protections repo id repo name status base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base 8,652 centosplus/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Plus 40+13 cr/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - cr 0 *epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64 8,411+66 extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras 128+53 updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates 2+1,320 repolist: 17,233 [root@goat ~]#

I use priorities, as follows:

1: base 2: centosplus 3: updates 4: extras 5: cr 6: contrib 7: epel

Can anyone explain this? or let me know how to get around it? Rebuilding the server from scratch is definitely possible since this is a test environment only.

Thanks

David