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

Thu Jan 16 12:37:17 UTC 2020
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

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.