[CentOS] CentOS 8: several packages have unresolved dependencies after "dnf update all "

Thu Jan 16 12:48:34 UTC 2020
Philippe Piot <piot at nicadd.niu.edu>

I am doing a dnf install package_without_version for instance for g++:

[piot at paris opal]$ sudo dnf install gcc-c++
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:06 ago on Thu 16 Jan 2020 06:45:59 AM
CST.
Error:
 Problem: package gcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64 requires glibc-devel >=
2.2.90-12, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package glibc-devel-2.28-72.el8.i686 requires glibc-headers, but none
of the providers can be installed
  - package glibc-devel-2.28-72.el8.i686 requires glibc-headers =
2.28-72.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package glibc-devel-2.28-72.el8.x86_64 requires glibc-headers, but none
of the providers can be installed
  - package glibc-devel-2.28-72.el8.x86_64 requires glibc-headers =
2.28-72.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package gcc-c++-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64 requires gcc = 8.3.1-4.5.el8, but
none of the providers can be installed
  - package glibc-headers-2.28-72.el8.i686 requires kernel-headers, but
none of the providers can be installed
  - package glibc-headers-2.28-72.el8.i686 requires kernel-headers >=
2.2.1, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package glibc-headers-2.28-72.el8.x86_64 requires kernel-headers, but
none of the providers can be installed
  - package glibc-headers-2.28-72.el8.x86_64 requires kernel-headers >=
2.2.1, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - package kernel-headers-4.18.0-147.0.3.el8_1.x86_64 is excluded
  - package kernel-headers-4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64 is excluded
  - package kernel-headers-4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64 is excluded
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
use not only best candidate packages)

  All the best,  -- Philippe.


Philippe Piot,
https://www.niu.edu/advanced-accelerator-randd/
<https://www.niu.edu/advanced-accelerator-randd/index.shtml>
Northern Illinois University, Dept of Physics and
Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator & Detector Development
DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
Tel: 815 753 6473, Web:  http://www.physics.niu.edu/physics/

Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source
Accelerator System Division
Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Tel: 630 252 2415, Web:
https://www.aps.anl.gov/Accelerator-Systems-Division


On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:37 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 07:24, Philippe Piot <piot at nicadd.niu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Stephen. Just for completeness, the repo I am currently pointing
> to
> > are
> >
> > [piot at paris opal]$ sudo dnf update
> > CentOS-8 - AppStream
> >                   775 kB/s | 5.8 MB     00:07
> > CentOS-8 - Base
> >                         798 kB/s | 4.0 MB     00:05
> > CentOS-8 - Extras
> >                         2.9 kB/s | 2.1 kB     00:00
> > CentOS-8 - PowerTools
> >                    686 kB/s | 2.0 MB     00:02
> > ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el8
> > 59 kB/s |  93 kB     00:01
> > ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Kernel Repository - el8         437
> > kB/s | 971 kB     00:02
> > Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
> >  11 kB/s |  10 kB     00:00
> > Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
> >        768 kB/s | 5.2 MB     00:06
> > google-chrome
> >                            13 kB/s | 3.5 kB     00:00
> > Dependencies resolved.
> > Nothing to do.
> > Complete!
> >
>
> Are you trying to install the 'exact' versions of the software
>
> dnf install boost-openmpi-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64
>
>  or are you doing a
>
> dnf install boost-openmpi-devel
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.
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