Cant install KDE

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Hello I am trying to test the installation of kde on a spare laptop. I just enabled EPEL and the issue here is

[ahmed@dev ~]$ sudo yum groupinstall “KDE Plasma Workspaces”
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:56 ago on Mon 31 May 2021 10:40:41 PM +04.
No match for group package “k3b-extras-freeworld”
Error:
Problem 1: conflicting requests

  • nothing provides xmessage needed by plasma-workspace-5.18.4.1-2.el8.x86_64
    Problem 2: package sddm-breeze-5.18.4.1-2.el8.noarch requires plasma-workspace = 5.18.4.1-2.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  • conflicting requests
  • nothing provides xmessage needed by plasma-workspace-5.18.4.1-2.el8.x86_64
    Problem 3: package plasma-desktop-5.18.4.1-2.el8.1.x86_64 requires plasma-workspace >= 5.18, but none of the providers can be installed
  • conflicting requests
  • nothing provides xmessage needed by plasma-workspace-5.18.4.1-2.el8.x86_64
    Problem 4: package kde-print-manager-19.12.3-2.el8.x86_64 requires plasma-workspace, but none of the providers can be installed
  • conflicting requests
  • nothing provides xmessage needed by plasma-workspace-5.18.4.1-2.el8.x86_64
    (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages or ‘–nobest’ to use not only best candidate packages)

I did as per the article I found

not sure what went wrong.

Please advice me and thank you.

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It is done.

I had to enable powertools repository in /yum.repo.d/ and dnf update. And finally install KDE.

3

Thanks @katana85. We initially enabled PowerTools in 8.3 since some people use it, but then people mentioned that it is not enabled by default in RHEL and so we should follow the same behavior which is what we did.