Message-ID: <3ef3b3fc4f8e23f7e75de1b202401869e5df1e00.camel@cybertec.at>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Package conflicts on Fedora 40
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Sbob <sbob@quadratum-braccas.com>,
 "pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org"
	 <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:13:53 +0200
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On Mon, 2024-10-14 at 10:52 -0600, Sbob wrote:
> I recently did a clean install of Fedora 40 on a new laptop. Then I=20
> installed PostgreSQL like this:
>=20
> dnf install -y=20
> https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/F-40-x86_64/pgdg-f=
edora-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
>=20
>=20
> dnf install -y=C2=A0 postgresql12 =C2=A0 postgresql12-server postgresql12=
-contrib
>=20
> dnf install -y=C2=A0 postgresql13 =C2=A0 postgresql13-server postgresql13=
-contrib
>=20
> dnf install -y=C2=A0 postgresql14 =C2=A0 postgresql14-server postgresql14=
-contrib
>=20
> dnf install -y=C2=A0 postgresql15 =C2=A0 postgresql15-server postgresql15=
-contrib
>=20
> dnf install -y=C2=A0 postgresql16 =C2=A0 postgresql16-server postgresql16=
-contrib
>=20
>=20
> Now when I run dnf update as root I get these conflict errors, any help=
=20
> would be greatly appreciated.
>=20
> =C2=A0=C2=A0Problem 1: package postgresql15-15.8-1.fc40.x86_64 from updat=
es=20
> conflicts with postgresql provided by=20
> postgresql12-12.20-2PGDG.f40.x86_64 from @System
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 - cannot install the best update candidate for package=20
> postgresql15-15.8-1PGDG.f40.x86_64
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 - cannot install the best update candidate for package=20
> postgresql12-12.20-2PGDG.f40.x86_64
> =C2=A0=C2=A0Problem 2: package postgresql15-contrib-15.8-1.fc40.x86_64 fr=
om=20
> updates conflicts with postgresql-contrib provided by=20
> postgresql12-contrib-12.20-2PGDG.f40.x86_64 from @System
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 - cannot install the best update candidate for package=20
> postgresql15-contrib-15.8-1PGDG.f40.x86_64
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 - cannot install the best update candidate for package=20
> postgresql12-contrib-12.20-2PGDG.f40.x86_64
> =C2=A0=C2=A0Problem 3: package postgresql15-server-15.8-1.fc40.x86_64 fro=
m updates=20
> conflicts with postgresql-server provided by=20
> postgresql12-server-12.20-2PGDG.f40.x86_64 from @System
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 - cannot install the best update candidate for package=20
> postgresql15-server-15.8-1PGDG.f40.x86_64
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 - cannot install the best update candidate for package=20
> postgresql12-server-12.20-2PGDG.f40.x86_64

This is not a performance question and should go to the pgsql-pkg-yum list.

It seems like your system is trying to install updates for the PostgreSQL
packages by Fedora rather than the PGDG packages.
I would remove all Fedora PostgreSQL packages.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe