Package 'kup' in rolling EXTRAS is missing dependency

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Hello,

  • OpenMandriva Lx version:
    OpenMandriva Lx 25.04 ROME
  • Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
    KDE 5.116.0 / Plasma 5.27.12
  • Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
    When attempting to install the backup software ‘kup’ from the EXTRAS repository dnf says that it can’t find a dependency.
    I’m unsure if this is because it’s really missing or if it’s just a labeling issue. The package didn’t install on LX 5.0, either.
  • Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):
    sudo dnf install kups
    [sudo] password for USER:
    Last metadata expiration check: 1:58:39 ago on Tue 08 Apr 2025 02:38:11 PM CDT.
    Error:
    Problem: conflicting requests
    • nothing provides libgit2.so.28()(64bit) needed by kup-0.9.1-1.x86_64 from rolling-x86_64-extra
      (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)
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Try installing

sudo dnf install lib64git2 --refresh

Then try again. Let me know.

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I filed a bug report too.

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By the way, Welcome! We are happy to see you here and we hope you will make this your home.

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After telling dnf to install libgit2 (with --refresh option),
it installs packages ‘lib64git2_1-1.9.0-1.x86_64, libgit2-1.9.0-1.x86_64’ .
Attempting to install ‘kup’ afterwards spits out:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:11 ago on Tue 08 Apr 2025 04:59:04 PM CDT.
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests

  • nothing provides libgit2.so.28()(64bit) needed by kup-0.9.1-1.x86_64 from rolling-x86_64-extra
    (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)

once again. Noticing the package ‘lib64git2_27’ described as an “Old version of libgit2” I’ve also installed it (with the --refresh option), trying again to install package ‘kup’.
DNF’s error message hasn’t changed.

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Now that you have the file it needs, lets do what it said the first time.

sudo dnf install kup –skip-broken
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I was under the understanding that that just makes it skip ‘kup’ as it’s missing a dependency. Running it again(with --skip-broken) the output is:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:58 ago on Tue 08 Apr 2025 05:01:26 PM CDT.
Dependencies resolved.

 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides libgit2.so.28()(64bit) needed by kup-0.9.1-1.x86_64 from rolling-x86_64-extra
==========================================================================
 Package              Architecture            Version                  Repository                             Size
==========================================================================
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 kup                  x86_64                  0.9.1-1                  rolling-x86_64-extra                  346 k

Transaction Summary
==========================================================================
Skip  1 Package

Nothing to do.
Complete!

DNF has been very helpful today.

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Is the program working?

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No?
DNF identified ‘kup’ as broken because of its missing dependency. It skipped installing the broken ‘kup’ package as instructed.
Kup wasn’t installed.
I guess there isn’t much more to do aside from either waiting for the ‘kup’ package to be fixed or somehow manually installing the requested dependency.
I assume since you’ve gone out of your way to help me (thank you, btw) you’ve got some idea of if that’s a horrible idea or not. So, yay or nay, begin open heart surgery?

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I have only been using dnf since Jan 6, so I am still learning too. Hang on as I try to find what we need. I thought --skip-broken would have done what we needed.

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Trying to get someone that is an expert with dnf to lend a hand

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Poking at the docs (dnf.readthedocs.io), there exists options to skip weak dependencies ( dnf -y install tito(EXAMPLEPACKAGE) --setopt=install_weak_deps=False) but there doesn’t look like there’s any obvious options to skip hard ones (probably a good thing overall).

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Apparently the last build of kup was 2021-07-09 and that was a long time ago.

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I don’t even know what kup does, but is there something else that could be used?

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Have you tried kbackup that looks like it is the replacment for it

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Yep, that’d do it.
It’s a KDE-integrated frontend of (https://bup.github.io/).
I’ve got a couple years of incremental backups from it and I don’t see any of the other options listed on the webpage in the repos.
kbackup seems to be working off of a different thing. I’ll have to poke it to see if I can get it to work, but I don’t have high hopes for it.
Hope it can get fixed but if not I’ll just have to figure out how to install it manually. Thanks for you time.

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If you need it, you need it. Lets see what we can do.

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I don’t know how skilled you are, but this has been recently done.

It has instructions to manually build it. It would likely be more recent than what we had here.

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Skill matters little in the face of Youtube and a brick wall to smash my head against. Off to procrastinate for a couple days before getting it done.
Edit:
Thanks again, till next time.

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All I can do is cheer you on. The instructions look to be pretty good.

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