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Hi All,

I’ve just installed a test laptop with CentOS Stream 8.1.

I notice that the default install has both CentOS-Base and CentOS-Base-Appstream repos enabled. Is that necessary, or should I
just have the Appstream repos enabled.

The reason I’m asking is because I’m having trouble updating the installation. The problem seems to be some installed rpms seem to depend on updates from the CentOS-Base repos and others seem to depend on similar updates from the CentOS-Base-Appstream repos and you can’t install both.

A typical error looks like this.

cannot install both qt5-qttools-common-5.12.5-1.el8.0.1.noarch and qt5-qttools-common-5.11.1-9.el8.noarch

qt5-qttools-common-5.11.1-9.el8.noarch is from CentOS-Base

qt5-qttools-common-5.12.5-1.el8.0.1.noarch is from CentOS-Base-Appstream

So updating some installed rpm depends on updating to the Appstream version of qt5-qttools and some other installed rpm depends on the original CentOS-Base version of qt5-qttools.

I’ve played around with –allowerasing –best and –nobest but still can’t get a clean update.

Thanks,

Tony

4 thoughts on - CentOS Repo Question

  • We are working out Stream issues right now .. but no, it is not necessary to have all the repos active. You only have to have one set of Base, Appstream, and Extras enabled (CentOS Stream or CentOS Linux).

    Stream standup is very much a work in progress at this point , but it is what i am using as my personal workstation (for whatever that is worth).

    You SHOULD be able to have both sets enabled though .. and will be able to once we have all the issues solved .. but i don’t have them both enabled on my workstation right now, just CentOS Stream.

    Thanks, Johnny Hughes

  • Thanks Johnny. I’ll go with the Stream repos enabled and see how that works out.

    Regards,

    Tony

  • For the record .. i just updated to what we have in the QA stream and it worked OK .. I expect that out soon (next day or so i think)