$ oslevel -s
7200-05-03-2148
I've been slowly trying to get dnf all updated but now I seem to have broken it... After slowly fixing one thing or another, I got to the point where a dnf update said it would remove dnf.
$ sudo /opt/freeware/bin/dnf update -y
AIX generic repository 13 kB/s | 2.7 kB 00:00
AIX noarch repository 7.3 kB/s | 2.6 kB 00:00
AIX 7.2 specific repository 13 kB/s | 2.7 kB 00:00
Error:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf
(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)
From another thread here, the solution was to update rpm.rte. I upgraded from
$ lslpp -Lc | grep rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.15.1.3: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :1:0:/:
to
$ lslpp -Lc | grep rpm.rte
rpm.rte:rpm.rte:4.15.1.1017: : :C: :RPM Package Manager: : : : : : :0:0:/:
Now dnf doesn't work at all. No matter if I'm trying to do an update or just list installed, I get:
# dnf list installed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "dnf", line 57, in <module>
from dnf.cli import main
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
import dnf.base
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 29, in <module>
import libdnf.transaction
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/libdnf/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
from . import common_types
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/libdnf/common_types.py", line 13, in <module>
from . import _common_types
ImportError: rtld: 0712-001 Symbol lua_newuserdata was referenced
from module /usr/opt/rpm/lib/librpmio.so(), but a runtime definition
of the symbol was not found.
root />#
Looking in /opt/freeware/bin I only see python 3.7
>$ ls -l /opt/freeware/bin/python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 10 Jan 25 2022 /opt/freeware/bin/python3 -> python3_64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 12 Jan 25 2022 /opt/freeware/bin/python3.7 -> python3.7_64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 13 Jan 25 2022 /opt/freeware/bin/python3.7_32 -> python3.7m_32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 13 Jan 25 2022 /opt/freeware/bin/python3.7_64 -> python3.7m_64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 13 Jan 25 2022 /opt/freeware/bin/python3.7m -> python3.7m_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 477917 Dec 15 2021 /opt/freeware/bin/python3.7m_32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 493079 Dec 15 2021 /opt/freeware/bin/python3.7m_64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 12 Jan 25 2022 /opt/freeware/bin/python3_32 -> python3.7_32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 12 Jan 25 2022 /opt/freeware/bin/python3_64 -> python3.7_64
I think 3.9 is required, but how was it working before I upgraded rpm.rte and more importantly, how to I update python without dnf? I see a lot of python rpms in the AIXToolbox, but not sure which one(s) I need and if installing it via rpm will mess up dnf.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.