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 nothing provides AIX-rpm >= 7.1.5.36 needed by pcre2-10.45-1.ppc -: AIX7.1

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Jan Robinson posted Tue April 22, 2025 04:40 AM

Hi 

Please give some help with this error.

```
# dnf  up pcre2.ppc
Last metadata expiration check: 2:03:26 ago on Tue Apr 22 08:21:17 USAST 2025.
Error:
 Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package pcre2-10.40-1.ppc
  - nothing provides AIX-rpm >= 7.1.5.36 needed by pcre2-10.45-1.ppc
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

# oslevel -s
7100-05-09-2148

# lslpp -L AIX-rpm
  Fileset                      Level  State  Type  Description (Uninstaller)
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  AIX-rpm                7.1.5.33-38    C     R    Virtual Package for libraries
                                                   and shells installed on system
                                                   (/bin/rpm)

# rpm -qa AIX-rpm
AIX-rpm-7.1.5.33-38.ppc

# /usr/sbin/updtvpkg  -- produces no error

```

Thanks so much.

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Aditya Kamath

Hi, I think this is an issue. We will look into this and get back with a fix.