At 08:52 AM 1/21/2020, David G. Miller wrote: >On 1/21/20 9:35 AM, david wrote: >>Folks >> >>In a test Centos 8 installation as a guest of >>VirtualBox on Windows 10, I want to install >>ffmpeg, and support for exfat. They're not in >>the standard distribution (as far as I know), so I issue as root: >> >> yum -y --enablerepo rpmfusion-free-updates >>install ffmpeg fuse-exfat exfat-utils >> >>and that works just fine. The ffmpeg >>functionality works; I haven't tested exfat >>yet. However, later, as part of maintenance, >>I want to get a list of everything that's installed, so I issue >> >> yum list installed >> >>and the following diagnostics occur: >>------------------------------- >>Modular dependency problems: >> >> Problem 1: conflicting requests >> - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed >>by module perl-App-cpanminus:1.7044:8010020191120175858:a9207fc6-0.x86_64 >> Problem 2: conflicting requests >> - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed >>by module perl-DBD-MySQL:4.046:8010020191114030811:073fa5fe-0.x86_64 >> Problem 3: conflicting requests >> - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed >>by module perl-DBD-SQLite:1.58:8010020191114033549:073fa5fe-0.x86_64 >> Problem 4: conflicting requests >> - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed >>by module perl-DBI:1.641:8010020191113222731:16b3ab4d-0.x86_64 >> Problem 5: conflicting requests >> - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed >>by module perl-YAML:1.24:8010020191114031501:a5949e2e-0.x86_64 >>Installed Packages >><long list follows> >>------------------------------ >> >>By the way, cpanm works ok too. >> >> >>My questions are: >>What do these diagnostics tell me? What am I supposed to do about it? >> >>Thanks for your help >> >>David >> >> >I think its telling you that perl is NOT >installed but the listed perl modules are >installed although it could be looking for >specifically the 5.26 version of perl (since you >mentioned the CPAN works). What happens if you >issue perl -v? perl gets installed as a >dependency of logwatch as an example so a lot of >people don't realize that they have perl installed whether they want it or not. > >Cheers, >Dave > >-- >"They that can give up essential liberty to >obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty." > >-- Benjamin Franklin Perl is explicitly installed, "perl -v" identifies v5.26.3, and comes from the standard Centos 8 repositories. So, I suspect your interpretation doesn't fit the facts. David K