https:\/\/download.rockylinux.org\/pub\/rocky\/9\/BaseOS\/x86_64\/os\/Packages\/r\/<\/a><\/p>\nYou will need to modify the below command to match the version you find in the above site, once that is complete you can run it. <\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# dnf install -y https:\/\/download.rockylinux.org\/pub\/rocky\/9\/BaseOS\/x86_64\/os\/Packages\/r\/{rocky-gpg-keys-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm,rocky-release-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm,rocky-repos-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm}\r\n<\/pre>\nOne road block was dnf did not like that I had remi and epel release 8, so I removed them and it went fine. <\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# dnf install -y https:\/\/download.rockylinux.org\/pub\/rocky\/9\/BaseOS\/x86_64\/os\/Packages\/r\/{rocky-gpg-keys-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm,rocky-release-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm,rocky-repos-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm}\r\nLast metadata expiration check: 0:20:38 ago on Thu 18 May 2023 10:27:24 PM UTC.\r\nrocky-gpg-keys-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm 169 kB\/s | 12 kB 00:00 \r\nrocky-release-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm 403 kB\/s | 23 kB 00:00 \r\nrocky-repos-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm 298 kB\/s | 12 kB 00:00 \r\nError: \r\n Problem: problem with installed package remi-release-8.7-2.el8.remi.noarch\r\n - package remi-release-8.7-2.el8.remi.noarch requires system-release(releasever) = 8, but none of the providers can be installed\r\n - package remi-release-8.4-1.el8.remi.noarch requires system-release(releasever) = 8, but none of the providers can be installed\r\n - package remi-release-8.5-2.el8.remi.noarch requires system-release(releasever) = 8, but none of the providers can be installed\r\n - package remi-release-8.5-3.el8.remi.noarch requires system-release(releasever) = 8, but none of the providers can be installed\r\n - package remi-release-8.6-1.el8.remi.noarch requires system-release(releasever) = 8, but none of the providers can be installed\r\n - cannot install both rocky-release-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch and rocky-release-8.7-1.2.el8.noarch\r\n - conflicting requests\r\n(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)\r\n<\/pre>\nFind the epel and remi release rpms:<\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# rpm -qa| grep release\r\nremi-release-8.7-2.el8.remi.noarch\r\nepel-release-8-19.el8.noarch\r\nrocky-release-8.7-1.2.el8.noarch\r\n<\/pre>\nRemove them:<\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# yum remove epel-release-8-19.el8.noarch remi-release-8.7-2.el8.remi.noarch\r\n<\/pre>\nUpgrade your system to 9 from 8:<\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# dnf install -y https:\/\/download.rockylinux.org\/pub\/rocky\/9\/BaseOS\/x86_64\/os\/Packages\/r\/{rocky-gpg-keys-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm,rocky-release-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm,rocky-repos-9.2-1.4.el9.noarch.rpm}\r\n<\/pre>\nI ignored this error, it seems like its just a GPG error:<\/p>\n
\r\n Running scriptlet: rocky-gpg-keys-8.7-1.2.el8.noarch 6\/6 \r\nLine is not an assignment at '\/usr\/lib\/sysctl.d\/50-redhat.conf:8': (null)\r\nCouldn't write '1' to 'net\/ipv4\/conf\/*\/rp_filter', ignoring: No such file or directory\r\nwarning: %transfiletriggerin(systemd-239-68.el8_7.4.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1\r\n\r\nError in scriptlet in rpm package rocky-gpg-keys\r\n<\/pre>\nVerify:<\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# cat \/etc\/rocky-release\r\nRocky Linux release 9.2 (Blue Onyx)\r\n<\/pre>\nRebuild the RPM database to now use SQLITE:<\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# rpm --rebuilddb\r\n<\/pre>\nThats it, reboot:<\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# reboot\r\n<\/pre>\nI did have some issues with dnf where I needed to reset some modules. <\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# dnf check\r\nModular dependency problems:\r\n\r\n Problem 1: conflicting requests\r\n - nothing provides module(platform:el8) needed by module httpd:2.4:8070020230406163027:3b9f49c4.x86_64\r\n Problem 2: conflicting requests\r\n - nothing provides module(platform:el8) needed by module mariadb:10.3:8060020220913075833:d63f516d.x86_64\r\n Problem 3: conflicting requests\r\n - nothing provides module(platform:el8) needed by module mysql:8.0:8060020221025174942:d63f516d.x86_64\r\n Problem 4: conflicting requests\r\n - nothing provides module(platform:el8) needed by module nginx:1.14:8040020210610090123:9f9e2e7e.x86_64\r\n<\/pre>\nI needed to reset the modules one by one, there may be more on your system:<\/p>\n
\r\n[root@rocky-us-east-jasonralph ~]# dnf module reset httpd:2.4 mariadb:10.3 mysql:8.0 nginx:1.14\r\n<\/pre>\nThat seemed to fix it, good luck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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