Hi All,

I am a newbie to Linux and I would like to have some help regarding installation of software packages on Oracle Linux 7.1. I did a minimal install of the OS and also installed Compatibility Libraries as an Addon. Amongst other settings, I disabled SELinux, updated all packages using yum update and added EPEL release 7.5 to yum. Next, I did a yum grouplist to see the available packages and started installing required packages using yum groupinstall command.

Now some packages like Additional Development could not be installed because I did not install mariadb-devel packages. Questions: What's the best way to install mariadb? Will SQL 5.6 do the same job?

The main issue I found is I could not install many packages like Console Internet Tools, General Purpose Desktop, Compatibility Libraries, Java Platform, NFS File server and so on. I can see these packages are the the available groups list but when I try to install, yum does not find any packages to install for these packages. Question: What I am missing here? Why can I use yum to install some packages but not others?

I redownloaded the public yum repo file and then tried to install but that did not help.

I also tried mounting the iso file for Oracle Linux 7.1 (downloaded from the oracle website), created a repo file for yum to use the iso file while disabling all other repo files and tried to install the packages but that didn't help either.

I then downloaded the public-yum-ol6.repo repo file as a test and enabled it while disabling other repo files. This time yum did find packages to install but there were version issues obviously.

So the question is why yum finds no packages to install when using the public-yum-ol7 repository. What am I missing here?

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

Vishal

In your description, you seem to confuse packages and package groups. Perhaps it doesn't install packages because they are already installed. Can you show some actual commands and their output? E.g. the one where mariadb is missing?

Hi Berndbausch,

Thank you for replying. Sorry, I should have mentioned. It's package groups. These package groups show when you run the yum grouplist command.

So, I enabled [ol7_latest] and [ol7_UEKR3] repositories inside public-yum-ol7.repo file. Then I ran the command 'yum groupinstall "Additional Development"' and the truncated last lines of the output are as follows:

--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-IPC-Cmd.noarch 1:0.80-4.el7 will be installed
Removing mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.41-2.el7_0 - u due to obsoletes from installed mysql-community-libs-5.6.23-3.el7.x86_64
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mariadb-libs.x86_64 1:5.5.41-2.el7_0 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: mariadb-libs(x86-64) = 1:5.5.41-2.el7_0 for package: 1:mariadb-devel-5.5.41-2.el7_0.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: 1:mariadb-devel-5.5.41-2.el7_0.x86_64 (ol7_latest)
Requires: mariadb-libs(x86-64) = 1:5.5.41-2.el7_0
Available: 1:mariadb-libs-5.5.35-3.el7.x86_64 (ol7_latest)
mariadb-libs(x86-64) = 1:5.5.35-3.el7
Available: 1:mariadb-libs-5.5.37-1.el7_0.x86_64 (ol7_latest)
mariadb-libs(x86-64) = 1:5.5.37-1.el7_0
Available: 1:mariadb-libs-5.5.40-1.el7_0.x86_64 (ol7_latest)
mariadb-libs(x86-64) = 1:5.5.40-1.el7_0
Available: 1:mariadb-libs-5.5.40-2.el7_0.x86_64 (ol7_latest)
mariadb-libs(x86-64) = 1:5.5.40-2.el7_0
Available: 1:mariadb-libs-5.5.41-2.el7_0.i686 (ol7_latest)
~mariadb-libs(x86-32) = 1:5.5.41-2.el7_0
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

That was when installing the Additional Development group package. Now, for Compatibility Libraries, when I run 'yum groupinstall "Compatibility Libraries"' or 'yum groupinstall "Console Internet Tools"' , the output lines are as follows:

[root@Server12 ~]# yum groupinstall "Compatibility libraries"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk
Warning: Group compat-libraries does not have any packages to install.
Maybe run: yum groups mark install (see man yum)
No packages in any requested group available to install or update
[root@Server12 ~]# yum groupinstall "Console Internet Tools"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: mirrors.ukfast.co.uk
Warning: Group console-internet does not have any packages to install.
Maybe run: yum groups mark install (see man yum)
No packages in any requested group available to install or update

When I installed Oracle Linux 7.1 on the machine, I only chose Minimal Install and Compatibility Libraries as an addon. So, let's say Compatibiliy Libraries group package is already installed but there are a number of other group packages that I am not able to install like SNMP Support, General Purpose Desktop, Java Platform, NFS file server just to name a few. I do not think all these packages would have been installed since it is a minimal install.

Thank you for your input on this.

Regards,

Vishal