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

Thu Jan 16 14:38:17 UTC 2020
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 08:27, Philippe Piot <piot at nicadd.niu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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

OK I see the problem.. arch difficulties entered in sometime. You have
some .i686 packages installed which got filtered into the compose at
some point when they shouldn't have been.

Please try adding --nobest --allowerasing to the install and see if it
gets past this.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.