Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to upgrade a KDE-based workstation from F38 to F39. I delayed the upgrade to ensure this workstation would remain available. The delay allowed a problem with powerdevil and libddcutil to creep in. It is causing `dnf update` and `dnf update --refresh` to fail.
I use only Fedora repos. I don't have any third party repos enabled, like RPM Fusion.
I see a couple of other specific questions about powerdevil and libddcutil from F38, but I don't see a clear path forward.
How do I fix the problem?
Thanks in advance.
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$ sudo dnf update Package manager: /bin/dnf Fedora 38 - x86_64 8.7 MB/s | 83 MB 00:09 Fedora 38 OpenH264 (from Cisco) - x86_64 5.6 kB/s | 2.5 kB 00:00 Fedora Modular 38 - x86_64 2.3 MB/s | 2.8 MB 00:01 Fedora 38 - x86_64 - Updates 9.8 MB/s | 35 MB 00:03 Fedora Modular 38 - x86_64 - Updates 2.5 MB/s | 2.1 MB 00:00 Metadata cache created. Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:04 ago on Wed 15 Nov 2023 06:12:54 AM EST. Dependencies resolved.
Problem: package powerdevil-5.27.9-2.fc38.x86_64 from @System requires libddcutil.so.4()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - cannot install both libddcutil-2.0.0-1.fc38.x86_64 from updates and libddcutil-1.4.1-1.fc38.x86_64 from @System - cannot install both libddcutil-2.0.0-1.fc38.x86_64 from updates and libddcutil-1.4.1-1.fc38.x86_64 from fedora - cannot install the best update candidate for package libddcutil-1.4.1-1.fc38.x86_64 - problem with installed package powerdevil-5.27.9-2.fc38.x86_64 ================================================================================ Package Architecture Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Skipping packages with conflicts: (add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade): libddcutil x86_64 2.0.0-1.fc38 updates 319 k
Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Skip 1 Package
$ sudo dnf update --best --allowerasing Fedora 38 - x86_64 11 MB/s | 83 MB 00:07 Fedora 38 OpenH264 (from Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 2.5 kB 00:01 Fedora Modular 38 - x86_64 3.4 MB/s | 2.8 MB 00:00 Fedora 38 - x86_64 - Updates 4.0 MB/s | 35 MB 00:08 Fedora Modular 38 - x86_64 - Updates 1.8 MB/s | 2.1 MB 00:01 Error: Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: plasma-desktop (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
$ sudo dnf update --best --allowerasing --skip-broken Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:24 ago on Wed 15 Nov 2023 06:14:00 AM EST. Error: Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: plasma-desktop