Problem Installing latest Usermin

Usermin
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version FEDORA 39
Webmin version 2.105
Usermin version 2.005

I get the following error when i try to install usermin (any version) :

dnf install usermin-2.005-1.noarch

Error:
Problem: conflicting requests

  • nothing provides /bin/rm needed by usermin-2.005-1.noarch from webmin-noarch
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why are you installing manually, shouldn’t this be in repo?

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What about just “dnf install usermin” ?

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Isn’t it installed and this just a upgrade.

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Should be installed did you try to access it from

http://yourserveraddress:20000 ?

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The same Error occurred installing thru the repo

dnf install usermin

Error:
Problem: conflicting requests

  • nothing provides /bin/rm needed by usermin-2.000-1.noarch from webmin-noarch
  • nothing provides /bin/rm needed by usermin-2.001-1.noarch from webmin-noarch
  • nothing provides /bin/rm needed by usermin-2.002-1.noarch from webmin-noarch
  • nothing provides /bin/rm needed by usermin-2.003-1.noarch from webmin-noarch
  • nothing provides /bin/rm needed by usermin-2.004-1.noarch from webmin-noarch
  • nothing provides /bin/rm needed by usermin-2.005-1.noarch from webmin-noarch
    (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)

It was installed with F38 but i got the same error when i try to upgrade to F39.
Uninstall usermin so i can upgrade to F39.

It was n’t installed, when i try to access it :

Unable to connect

An error occurred during a connection to 127.0.0.1:20000.

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repo "webmin-noarch" is not an official supported Fedora repo, what happens if you disable that for the upgrade:

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39 --disablerepo=webmin-noarch
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot --disablerepo=webmin-noarch

then when it's in Fedora 39, try "dnf upgrade" with your normal webmin-noarch being enabled as usual and see if it updates your usermin

you said you can't uninstall usermin-noarch but why not, is there a dependency problem where it would make you uninstall too much else?

OR remove it then

rpm -e --nosignature usermin-2.004-1.noarch

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This is a misfeature in the package. I thought @Jamie had already fixed it. It was reported on github a week or two ago. Usermin shouldn’t depend on rm, by path or otherwise.

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Yes, we have fixed it for Webmin and I just recently found out that we forgot to do it for Usermin 2.005.

You can try installing nightly version of Usermin which fixes this problem.

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I know that “webmin-noarch” is not an official supported Fedora repo, but I had no problem with Fedora’s previous upgrades. For upgrade F38 → F39 i had this specific error with usermin package and i had to unistall it to continue with Fedora Upgrade to F39.

I have reinstall webmin-noarch repo following the instructions from " Downloading and Installing | Webmin " and i have the same error installing Usermin from the webmin repo or with manual download the rpm.

There is something wrong with the package dependencies


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Can you help me, where to find nightly version of Usermin?

Update: Found it. And It worked!

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on my RedHat 8 system, /bin/ is a symlink to /usr/bin/ and in there I find RM :smile:

isn’t RM (‘remove’ aka ‘delete’) a very common/standard/old utility? Why would it not be on his system, regardless if usermin has a dependency or not?

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It would be, but it wouldn’t show up as a provided if it’s on a different path in the package.

It should not be a dependency of the package. It was added, I’m sure, because some crazy user in the distant past tried to install Webmin on a system with a bunch of missing core stuff, and Jamie wanted to avoid that situation. But, it’s not reasonable to accommodate bizarrely stripped down systems
it’s reasonable to expect a user installing Webmin is doing so on a normal Linux system with the basic core utilities available. Base OS (which rm is a part of) is not included in dependencies in standard OS packages and we shouldn’t include it either.

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We’ll fix this in the next build of the Usermin package. I guess I only did it for Webmin in the latest release


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