Yum Package Install Error

Rahul Agarwal
5 min readApr 4, 2022

Issue: Yum shows Package available but unable to install

~]# yum info rhvm
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:36 ago on Sun 03 Apr 2022 02:01:30 AM EDT.
Available Packages
Name : rhvm
Version : 4.4.10.7
Release : 0.4.el8ev
Architecture : noarch
Size : 8.7 k
Source : ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.src.rpm
Repository : rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
Summary : Red Hat Virtualization Manager
URL : http://www.redhat.com/products/virtualization
License : ASL 2.0
Description : Red Hat Virtualization is a feature-rich server virtualization management
: system that provides advanced capabilities for managing Red Hat
: virtualization infrastructure for Servers and Desktops.

Fails while installation:

~]# dnf install rhvm
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:15 ago on Sun 03 Apr 2022 02:01:30 AM EDT.
All matches were filtered out by exclude filtering for argument: rhvm
Error: Unable to find a match: rhvm

Solution:

This fails because an earlier this package with current or earlier version exists in below file:

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list

I had below entries available in this file:

rhvm-branding-rhv-4.3.5-1.el7ev.noarch
rhvm-4.3.11.4-0.1.el7.noarch
rhvm-dependencies-4.3.2-1.el7ev.noarch

Make a copy of this file and remove the entries from this file and execute below:

~]# dnf clean all
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
57 files removed
~]# dnf install rhvm -y
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
...
...Output Trancated...
Dependencies resolved.
=====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
=====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
rhvm noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 8.7 k
Installing dependencies:
ovirt-engine noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 13 M
ovirt-engine-backend noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 7.3 M
ovirt-engine-dbscripts noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 345 k
ovirt-engine-restapi noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 5.4 M
ovirt-engine-setup noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 9.4 k
ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-cinderlib noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 30 k
ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-imageio noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 18 k
ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 195 k
ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 29 k
ovirt-engine-tools noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 316 k
ovirt-engine-ui-extensions noarch 1.2.7-1.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 13 M
ovirt-engine-vmconsole-proxy-helper noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 17 k
ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal noarch 4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 116 M
rhv-log-collector-analyzer noarch 1.0.11-1.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 118 k
rhvm-branding-rhv noarch 4.4.10-1.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 191 k
rhvm-setup-plugins noarch 4.4.3-1.el8ev rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms 23 k
Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install 17 Packages
Total download size: 156 M
Installed size: 408 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/17): rhvm-setup-plugins-4.4.3-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm 86 kB/s | 23 kB 00:00
(2/17): rhv-log-collector-analyzer-1.0.11-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm 368 kB/s | 118 kB 00:00
(3/17): ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-cinderlib-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 398 kB/s | 30 kB 00:00
(4/17): rhvm-branding-rhv-4.4.10-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm 1.1 MB/s | 191 kB 00:00
(5/17): ovirt-engine-dbscripts-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 3.3 MB/s | 345 kB 00:00
(6/17): ovirt-engine-tools-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 3.3 MB/s | 316 kB 00:00
(7/17): ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 1.1 MB/s | 195 kB 00:00
(8/17): rhvm-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 99 kB/s | 8.7 kB 00:00
(9/17): ovirt-engine-backend-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 15 MB/s | 7.3 MB 00:00
(10/17): ovirt-engine-restapi-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 12 MB/s | 5.4 MB 00:00
(11/17): ovirt-engine-ui-extensions-1.2.7-1.el8ev.noarch.rpm 8.3 MB/s | 13 MB 00:01
(12/17): ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 245 kB/s | 29 kB 00:00
(13/17): ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-imageio-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 179 kB/s | 18 kB 00:00
(14/17): ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 15 MB/s | 13 MB 00:00
(15/17): ovirt-engine-vmconsole-proxy-helper-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 137 kB/s | 17 kB 00:00
(16/17): ovirt-engine-setup-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 44 kB/s | 9.4 kB 00:00
(17/17): ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch.rpm 30 MB/s | 116 MB 00:03
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 29 MB/s | 156 MB 00:05
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : rhv-log-collector-analyzer-1.0.11-1.el8ev.noarch 1/17
Installing : rhvm-branding-rhv-4.4.10-1.el8ev.noarch 2/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-dbscripts-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 3/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-backend-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 4/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-backend-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 4/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-backend-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 4/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-tools-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 5/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-tools-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 5/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-tools-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 5/17
Installing : rhvm-setup-plugins-4.4.3-1.el8ev.noarch 6/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-cinderlib-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 7/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-vmconsole-proxy-helper-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 8/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 9/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-imageio-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 10/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-setup-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 11/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-setup-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 11/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 12/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 12/17
Installing : rhvm-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 13/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-restapi-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 14/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 15/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-ui-extensions-1.2.7-1.el8ev.noarch 16/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 17/17
Installing : ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 17/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-setup-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 17/17
Running scriptlet: ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 17/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-ui-extensions-1.2.7-1.el8ev.noarch 1/17
Verifying : rhv-log-collector-analyzer-1.0.11-1.el8ev.noarch 2/17
Verifying : rhvm-setup-plugins-4.4.3-1.el8ev.noarch 3/17
Verifying : rhvm-branding-rhv-4.4.10-1.el8ev.noarch 4/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-cinderlib-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 5/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-dbscripts-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 6/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-backend-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 7/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-tools-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 8/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 9/17
Verifying : rhvm-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 10/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 11/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-restapi-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 12/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 13/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 14/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-imageio-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 15/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-vmconsole-proxy-helper-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 16/17
Verifying : ovirt-engine-setup-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch 17/17
Installed products updated.
Installed:
ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch ovirt-engine-backend-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch ovirt-engine-dbscripts-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch
ovirt-engine-restapi-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch ovirt-engine-setup-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-cinderlib-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch
ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-imageio-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-vmconsole-proxy-helper-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch
ovirt-engine-tools-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch ovirt-engine-ui-extensions-1.2.7-1.el8ev.noarch ovirt-engine-vmconsole-proxy-helper-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch
ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch rhv-log-collector-analyzer-1.0.11-1.el8ev.noarch rhvm-4.4.10.7-0.4.el8ev.noarch
rhvm-branding-rhv-4.4.10-1.el8ev.noarch rhvm-setup-plugins-4.4.3-1.el8ev.noarch
Complete!

Thanks!

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