Unable to upgrade my system

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Hello Rocky Forum.

I am currently running on Rocky Linux 9 as per the output below:

cat /etc/os-release 

NAME="Rocky Linux"
VERSION="9.2 (Blue Onyx)"
ID="rocky"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="9.2"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el9"
PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 9.2 (Blue Onyx)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
LOGO="fedora-logo-icon"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:9::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://rockylinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.rockylinux.org/"
SUPPORT_END="2032-05-31"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky-Linux-9"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="9.2"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="9.2"

When i run the upgrade command, i get the following error:

sudo dnf -y upgrade 
Last metadata expiration check: 1:19:13 ago on Mon 24 Jul 2023 06:23:24 PM EAT.
Error: 
 Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package kf5-ki18n-5.105.0-1.el9.x86_64
  - nothing provides libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5_PRIVATE_API)(64bit) needed by kf5-ki18n-5.105.0-3.el9.next.x86_64
 Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package kf5-kiconthemes-5.105.0-1.el9.x86_64
  - nothing provides libQt5Gui.so.5(Qt_5_PRIVATE_API)(64bit) needed by kf5-kiconthemes-5.105.0-3.el9.next.x86_64
 Problem 3: cannot install the best update candidate for package kf5-kxmlgui-5.105.0-1.el9.x86_64
  - nothing provides libQt5Core.so.5(Qt_5_PRIVATE_API)(64bit) needed by kf5-kxmlgui-5.105.0-3.el9.next.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

I know this might be a straight forward answer, but please help me understand how we solve these kinds of errors on “nothing provides” such and such package.

2

You are attempting to use EPEL next that is meant for CentOS Stream (or 9.3, which is not available until november). It is recommended to disable the epel next repository.

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Thank you so much @nazunalika

I have managed to disable the epel-next repository:

sudo yum-config-manager --disable epel-next

Then running the command:

sudo dnf upgrade -y
Last metadata expiration check: 1:39:15 ago on Mon 24 Jul 2023 06:23:24 PM EAT.
Dependencies resolved.
==========================================================================
 Package               Arch   Version               Repository       Size
==========================================================================
Upgrading:
 bind-libs             x86_64 32:9.16.23-11.el9_2.1 appstream       1.2 M
 bind-license          noarch 32:9.16.23-11.el9_2.1 appstream        13 k
 bind-utils            x86_64 32:9.16.23-11.el9_2.1 appstream       199 k
 firefox               x86_64 102.13.0-2.el9_2      appstream       107 M
 google-chrome-stable  x86_64 115.0.5790.102-1      google-chrome    96 M
 mongodb-database-tools
                       x86_64 100.7.4-1             mongodb-org-5.0  51 M
 mongodb-org           x86_64 5.0.19-1.el8          mongodb-org-5.0 9.5 k
 mongodb-org-database  x86_64 5.0.19-1.el8          mongodb-org-5.0 9.6 k
 mongodb-org-database-tools-extra
                       x86_64 5.0.19-1.el8          mongodb-org-5.0  15 k
 mongodb-org-mongos    x86_64 5.0.19-1.el8          mongodb-org-5.0  20 M
 mongodb-org-server    x86_64 5.0.19-1.el8          mongodb-org-5.0  28 M
 mongodb-org-shell     x86_64 5.0.19-1.el8          mongodb-org-5.0  16 M
 mongodb-org-tools     x86_64 5.0.19-1.el8          mongodb-org-5.0 9.5 k
 open-vm-tools         x86_64 12.1.5-1.el9_2.1      appstream       851 k
 open-vm-tools-desktop x86_64 12.1.5-1.el9_2.1      appstream       158 k
 polkit-qt5-1          x86_64 0.114.0-6.el9         epel             83 k
 pritunl-client-electron
                       x86_64 1.3.3600.11-1.el8.oraclelinux
                                                    pritunl          99 M
 qca-qt5               x86_64 2.3.4-5.el9           epel            457 k
 qca-qt5-ossl          x86_64 2.3.4-5.el9           epel            112 k
 sos                   noarch 4.5.4-1.el9           baseos          789 k
 webkit2gtk3           x86_64 2.38.5-1.el9_2.3      appstream        18 M
 webkit2gtk3-jsc       x86_64 2.38.5-1.el9_2.3      appstream       3.2 M

Transaction Summary
==========================================================================
Upgrade  22 Packages

Thank you so much. Is this the way to handle the “nothing provides” error ?

4

@Jil I suggest to remove the epel-next repo/release files at all.

dnf remove epel-next-release

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