CentOS 9 Stream – errors doing yum update

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I'm coming in from using Ubuntu.

Just installed CentOS on my DEV server and right away having issues just doing an update or installing new packages.

Here is the error:

sudo yum update

Last metadata expiration check: 0:41:22 ago on Tue 15 Feb 2022 10:38:21 AM.
Error:

 Problem 1: problem with installed package libidn2-2.3.0-7.el9.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package libidn2-2.3.0-7.el9.x86_64
  - nothing provides libunistring.so.0()(64bit) needed by libidn2-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64

 Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-tracer-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
  - problem with installed package python3-tracer-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
  - package python3-tracer-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch requires tracer-common = 0.7.5-4.el9, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package tracer-common-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
  - cannot install both tracer-common-0.7.8-1.el7.noarch and tracer-common-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch

Here are the enabled repos:

yum repolist enabled
repo id       repo name
appstream     CentOS Stream 9 - AppStream
baseos        CentOS Stream 9 - BaseOS
epel          Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64
extras-common CentOS Stream 9 - Extras packages
remi-safe     Safe Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_6

I have tried to:

sudo yum update --best --allowerasing

But its still complaining:

Problem 1: problem with installed package libidn2-2.3.0-7.el9.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package libidn2-2.3.0-7.el9.x86_64
  - nothing provides libunistring.so.0()(64bit) needed by libidn2-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
 Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-tracer-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
  - problem with installed package python3-tracer-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
  - package python3-tracer-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch requires tracer-common = 0.7.5-4.el9, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package tracer-common-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
  - cannot install both tracer-common-0.7.8-1.el7.noarch and tracer-common-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

Any ideas how to fix this?

UPDATE:

Tried

yum clean all
yum check
yum check-update
yum update

yum update --nobest

Same result:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:49:35 ago on Tue 15 Feb 2022 11:30:57 AM.
Dependencies resolved.

 Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package libidn2-2.3.0-7.el9.x86_64
  - nothing provides libunistring.so.0()(64bit) needed by libidn2-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
 Problem 2: package python3-tracer-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch requires tracer-common = 0.7.5-4.el9, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both tracer-common-0.7.8-1.el7.noarch and tracer-common-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package tracer-common-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-tracer-0.7.5-4.el9.noarch
==================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                Architecture                    Version                               Repository                     Size
==================================================================================================================================================
Skipping packages with conflicts:
(add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade):
 tracer-common                          noarch                          0.7.8-1.el7                           epel                           31 k
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 libidn2                                x86_64                          2.3.2-1.el7                           epel                          148 k

Best Answer

baseos CentOS Stream 9 - BaseOS epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64 extras-common CentOS Stream 9 - Extras packages

You are using old EPEL (and "remi") for EL-7 while you are running EL-9

You need to remove epel-release and remi-release and install the proper versions.