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[Xavier Bachelot <address@concealed>]

Hi Richard,

On 23/04/2023 19:22, Richard B. Pyne wrote:
> I am trying to do a new install of sympa on Rocky linux 8 and am running 
> into the following install errors:
>
>   $ dnf install sympa
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:31 ago on Sun 23 Apr 2023 11:10:35 
> AM MDT.
> Error:
>   Problem: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides perl(DateTime) needed by sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(DateTime::TimeZone) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(Clone) needed by sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(File::Copy::Recursive) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(HTML::TreeBuilder) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(IO::Scalar) needed by sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(Class::Singleton) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(DateTime::Format::Mail) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(MIME::Charset) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(Text::LineFold) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(Unicode::GCString) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl(Unicode::UTF8) needed by 
> sympa-6.2.70-2.el8.x86_64
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' 
> to use not only best candidate packages)
>
>
> Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

I assume you are installing sympa from EPEL.
You are likely missing the PowerTools repository, which is not enabled 
by default, and is mandatory in order to use EPEL, as stated in the EPEL 
documentation.
See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/#_almalinux_8_rocky_linux_8

Regards,
Xavier