> On 1/21/20 10:10 AM, david wrote: >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Not seeing that here but it appears you are running newer versions of at > least perl-DBD-MySQL, perl-DBD-SQLite and perl-DBI (snipped from "yum > list installed" on my CentOS 8 VM after running "yum update"): > > perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 4.023-6.el7 @anaconda > perl-DBD-SQLite.x86_64 1.39-3.el7 @anaconda > perl-DBI.x86_64 1.627-4.el7 @anaconda > > What repo are you pulling the listed packages from? Is it the same repo > as for perl? I'm getting: Maybe it's worth to have a look a yum.log to see what happened to perl in the history of the installation? Simon