Package management confusion

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I am running Mageia 6, trying to install PacketFence via the RPM method. The issue I am facing is that I do not believe that urpmi has a native function to install all package dependencies.



I thought that the command urpmi /path/to/rpm -auto would querty the package and install its dependencies, but it did not. Some websites mentioned that I can use yum with a local repository; although, it's not recommended.



A little more digging and I found that I can use dnf to install RPMs. So the command sudo dnf install /path/to/rpm will install the packages, and its dependencies.



The issue then is, I found packages that do not have requests:




Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides glibc-common needed by packetfence-8.1.0-1.el7.noarch




So that then led me to think, urpmi glibc however that then resulted in stating I had the latest version of glibc installed.



I ran around some RPM finding sites, downloaded what seems to be the dependency installers, only to be greeted with the same error(s).



Is this installer a really bad example? Am I installing the wrong one? Surely package management here isn't as odd as I am experiencing. Using RMP finders and running urpmi install is fine, and dnf seems better, but how does one go about installing dependencies?



I do surmise I'm doing something very wrong, but I'm unsure; I am used to apt-get and Ubuntu, so sorry if this is obvious.










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  • Noted using dnf I am not able to install glibc-common or even search the product, yet on other system's it's fine (from other Linux based users). Further tested urpmi to install another package with ~70 dependencies and that worked flawlessly; so either missing a repo or this package isn't build for Mageia.
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I am running Mageia 6, trying to install PacketFence via the RPM method. The issue I am facing is that I do not believe that urpmi has a native function to install all package dependencies.



I thought that the command urpmi /path/to/rpm -auto would querty the package and install its dependencies, but it did not. Some websites mentioned that I can use yum with a local repository; although, it's not recommended.



A little more digging and I found that I can use dnf to install RPMs. So the command sudo dnf install /path/to/rpm will install the packages, and its dependencies.



The issue then is, I found packages that do not have requests:




Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides glibc-common needed by packetfence-8.1.0-1.el7.noarch




So that then led me to think, urpmi glibc however that then resulted in stating I had the latest version of glibc installed.



I ran around some RPM finding sites, downloaded what seems to be the dependency installers, only to be greeted with the same error(s).



Is this installer a really bad example? Am I installing the wrong one? Surely package management here isn't as odd as I am experiencing. Using RMP finders and running urpmi install is fine, and dnf seems better, but how does one go about installing dependencies?



I do surmise I'm doing something very wrong, but I'm unsure; I am used to apt-get and Ubuntu, so sorry if this is obvious.










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  • Noted using dnf I am not able to install glibc-common or even search the product, yet on other system's it's fine (from other Linux based users). Further tested urpmi to install another package with ~70 dependencies and that worked flawlessly; so either missing a repo or this package isn't build for Mageia.
    – ThisIsNotMyRealName
    Sep 19 at 13:41












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I am running Mageia 6, trying to install PacketFence via the RPM method. The issue I am facing is that I do not believe that urpmi has a native function to install all package dependencies.



I thought that the command urpmi /path/to/rpm -auto would querty the package and install its dependencies, but it did not. Some websites mentioned that I can use yum with a local repository; although, it's not recommended.



A little more digging and I found that I can use dnf to install RPMs. So the command sudo dnf install /path/to/rpm will install the packages, and its dependencies.



The issue then is, I found packages that do not have requests:




Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides glibc-common needed by packetfence-8.1.0-1.el7.noarch




So that then led me to think, urpmi glibc however that then resulted in stating I had the latest version of glibc installed.



I ran around some RPM finding sites, downloaded what seems to be the dependency installers, only to be greeted with the same error(s).



Is this installer a really bad example? Am I installing the wrong one? Surely package management here isn't as odd as I am experiencing. Using RMP finders and running urpmi install is fine, and dnf seems better, but how does one go about installing dependencies?



I do surmise I'm doing something very wrong, but I'm unsure; I am used to apt-get and Ubuntu, so sorry if this is obvious.










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I am running Mageia 6, trying to install PacketFence via the RPM method. The issue I am facing is that I do not believe that urpmi has a native function to install all package dependencies.



I thought that the command urpmi /path/to/rpm -auto would querty the package and install its dependencies, but it did not. Some websites mentioned that I can use yum with a local repository; although, it's not recommended.



A little more digging and I found that I can use dnf to install RPMs. So the command sudo dnf install /path/to/rpm will install the packages, and its dependencies.



The issue then is, I found packages that do not have requests:




Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides glibc-common needed by packetfence-8.1.0-1.el7.noarch




So that then led me to think, urpmi glibc however that then resulted in stating I had the latest version of glibc installed.



I ran around some RPM finding sites, downloaded what seems to be the dependency installers, only to be greeted with the same error(s).



Is this installer a really bad example? Am I installing the wrong one? Surely package management here isn't as odd as I am experiencing. Using RMP finders and running urpmi install is fine, and dnf seems better, but how does one go about installing dependencies?



I do surmise I'm doing something very wrong, but I'm unsure; I am used to apt-get and Ubuntu, so sorry if this is obvious.







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  • Noted using dnf I am not able to install glibc-common or even search the product, yet on other system's it's fine (from other Linux based users). Further tested urpmi to install another package with ~70 dependencies and that worked flawlessly; so either missing a repo or this package isn't build for Mageia.
    – ThisIsNotMyRealName
    Sep 19 at 13:41
















  • Noted using dnf I am not able to install glibc-common or even search the product, yet on other system's it's fine (from other Linux based users). Further tested urpmi to install another package with ~70 dependencies and that worked flawlessly; so either missing a repo or this package isn't build for Mageia.
    – ThisIsNotMyRealName
    Sep 19 at 13:41















Noted using dnf I am not able to install glibc-common or even search the product, yet on other system's it's fine (from other Linux based users). Further tested urpmi to install another package with ~70 dependencies and that worked flawlessly; so either missing a repo or this package isn't build for Mageia.
– ThisIsNotMyRealName
Sep 19 at 13:41




Noted using dnf I am not able to install glibc-common or even search the product, yet on other system's it's fine (from other Linux based users). Further tested urpmi to install another package with ~70 dependencies and that worked flawlessly; so either missing a repo or this package isn't build for Mageia.
– ThisIsNotMyRealName
Sep 19 at 13:41















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