Nothing provides python(abi) 3.6

[Panos Kavalagios]

Broken dependency in Fedora 30:

Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.10_132072_fedora26-1.x86_64

• nothing provides python(abi) = 3.6 needed by VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.12_133076_fedora26-1.x86_64

as such the VirtualBox 6.0.12 cannot be installed. The previous version 6.0.10 works fine.

[Panos Kavalagios]

The problem persists in 6.0.14 as well:

 Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.10_132072_fedora26-1.x86_64
  - nothing provides python(abi) = 3.6 needed by VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.14_133895_fedora26-1.x86_64

[Frank Batschulat (Oracle)]

You are trying to install the Fedora-26 packages on something newer. You should use from:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

​https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.14/VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.14_133895_fedora29-1.x86_64.rpm

can you try this one instead please.

[Panos Kavalagios]

You are right. My repo file has fixed to Fedora 26 due to an old issue with the symlinks provided in the past and the repository couldn't work and it needed that workaround. I have fixed and now it was installed successfully:

[root@charon panos]# dnf update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:08 ago on Κυρ 15 Δεκ 2019 12:54:06 μμ CET.
Dependencies resolved.
=======================================================================
 Package         Arch    Version                     Repository   Size
=======================================================================
Upgrading:
 VirtualBox-6.0  x86_64  6.0.14_133895_fedora29-1    virtualbox  110 M
Installing dependencies:
 compat-libvpx5  x86_64  1.7.0-2.fc31                fedora      825 k

Transaction Summary
=======================================================================
Install  1 Package
Upgrade  1 Package

Total download size: 111 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): compat-libvpx5-1.7.0-2.fc31.x86 1.4 MB/s | 825 kB     00:00    
(2/2): VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.14_133895_fe 2.2 MB/s | 110 MB     00:49    
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                  2.2 MB/s | 111 MB     00:49     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                               1/1 
  Installing       : compat-libvpx5-1.7.0-2.fc31.x86_64            1/3 
  Running scriptlet: VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.14_133895_fedora29-1.x86   2/3 
  Upgrading        : VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.14_133895_fedora29-1.x86   2/3 
  Running scriptlet: VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.14_133895_fedora29-1.x86   2/3 

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!


  Running scriptlet: VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.10_132072_fedora26-1.x86   3/3 
  Cleanup          : VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.10_132072_fedora26-1.x86   3/3 
  Running scriptlet: VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.10_132072_fedora26-1.x86   3/3 
  Verifying        : compat-libvpx5-1.7.0-2.fc31.x86_64            1/3 
  Verifying        : VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.14_133895_fedora29-1.x86   2/3 
  Verifying        : VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.10_132072_fedora26-1.x86   3/3 

Upgraded:
  VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.14_133895_fedora29-1.x86_64                       

Installed:
  compat-libvpx5-1.7.0-2.fc31.x86_64                                   

Complete!