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

Thu Jan 16 13:26:26 UTC 2020
Philippe Piot <piot at nicadd.niu.edu>

Also just to be more specific I am running CentOS 8.1. So the issue I
encounter were after upgrading to 8.1. Thank you! -- Philippe.


On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:48 AM Philippe Piot <piot at nicadd.niu.edu> wrote:

> 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,
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>
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>
>
> 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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