As the title tells - obviously a package dependency issue:
#> yum install borgbackup
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Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides python3.6dist(packaging) needed by borgbackup-1.1.17-1.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
Any hints, ideas or suggestions?
TIA
Websearch with that returns: https://pkgs.org/download/python3.6dist(packaging)
Therefore, this could help:
yum --enablerepo=powertools install borgbackup
Just for completion for Alma, CentOS, Rocky (RHEL needs to install epel via rpm):
dnf install epel-release
dnf config-manager --set-enabled epel
dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools
PowerTools actually were active on that server, when it was still CentOS - early migrator and obviously the enabled powertools got lost in limbo (epel was still active).
So: Thank you for pointing it out, I would have needed forever to realize PowerTools repo isn’t active anymore on that server…