Hi, I'm trying to upgrade a system here and am having some difficulty with dnf. Could I get some help or tips or suggestions please? Below is what I would enter in a bugzilla.redhat.com bug report. I thought I'd check here first in case I've done something stupid. Thanks, George... Description of problem: Attempting to upgrade this system. First try revealed errors with "nut" and "gnutls" so I reran the command adding --exclude='nut-*' and --exclude='gnutls*'. This retry listed several other packages with problems. Second try, adding --exclude='kdevelop*' and --exclude='python*'. This resulted in the "protected packages" message. It's clear that there's a bug here or (probably) I don't understand dnf as well as I thought. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dnf-4.2.21-1.fc33.noarch How reproducible: always for now Steps to Reproduce: 1.see below 2. 3. Actual results: see below Expected results: clean and successful system upgrade Additional info: fc33-bash 5.0 /donez# /usr/bin/dnf -y --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --best --allowerasing --exclude='gnutls-*' --exclude='nut*' upgrade Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.6 kB/s | 986 B 00:00 Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for the next Fedora release 32 kB/s | 14 kB 00:00 Error: Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package thonny-3.2.7-2.fc32.noarch - problem with installed package thonny-3.2.7-2.fc32.noarch - nothing provides python3.9dist(asttokens) >= 1.1.10 needed by thonny-3.2.7-3.fc33.noarch Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package pdfarranger-1.5.3-1.fc33.noarch - problem with installed package pdfarranger-1.5.3-1.fc33.noarch - nothing provides python3.9dist(pikepdf) >= 1.7 needed by pdfarranger-1.5.3-2.fc33.noarch Problem 3: cannot install the best update candidate for package kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64 - problem with installed package kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64 - nothing provides libprocesscore.so.9()(64bit) needed by kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64 - nothing provides libprocessui.so.9()(64bit) needed by kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64 Problem 4: cannot install the best update candidate for package kdevelop-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64 - problem with installed package kdevelop-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64 - package kdevelop-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64 requires kdevelop-libs(x86-64) = 9:5.5.1-2.fc33, but none of the providers can be installed - nothing provides libprocesscore.so.9()(64bit) needed by kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64 - nothing provides libprocessui.so.9()(64bit) needed by kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64 Problem 5: cannot install the best update candidate for package gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64 - cannot install both gnutls-3.6.13-6.fc33.x86_64 and gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64 - package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64 requires gnutls(x86-64) = 3.6.13-3.fc33, but none of the providers can be installed - problem with installed package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64 Problem 6: cannot install the best update candidate for package gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686 - cannot install both gnutls-3.6.13-6.fc33.i686 and gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686 - package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686 requires gnutls(x86-32) = 3.6.13-3.fc33, but none of the providers can be installed - problem with installed package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686 Problem 7: cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64 - cannot install both python3-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.x86_64 and python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64 - python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686 has inferior architecture - package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires python(abi) = 3.8, but none of the providers can be installed - problem with installed package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 Problem 8: cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-devel-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64 - problem with installed package python3-devel-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64 - package python3-devel-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.x86_64 conflicts with python3 < 3.9.0~b1-4.fc33 provided by python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64 - package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires python(abi) = 3.8, but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686 - cannot install both python3-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.i686 and python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686 - package nut-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires libupsclient.so.4()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - problem with installed package nut-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 - package nut-client-2.7.4-30.fc33.x86_64 is filtered out by exclude filtering fc33-bash 5.0 /donez# /usr/bin/dnf -y --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --best --allowerasing --exclude='gnutls-*' --exclude='nut*' --exclude='kdevelop*' --exclude='python*' upgrade Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 177 B/s | 986 B 00:05 Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for the next Fedora release 43 kB/s | 14 kB 00:00 Error: Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
