Re: BUG #18561: postgresql16-devel rpm cannot be installed due to missing Perl-IPC-Run

On 2024-07-31 We 11:16 AM, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 18561
> Logged by: Tim Dysinger
> Email address:tim(at)dysinger(dot)net
> PostgreSQL version: 16.3
> Operating system: RedHat 9, Alma Linux 9, Rocky Linux 9
> Description:
>
> If you grab a fresh RedHat 9 image and try to install PGDG rpms from your
> repository like so:
>
> dnf install -y
> https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-9-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
> dnf install -y postgresql16-server postgresql16-devel
>
> It fails with a missing Perl IPC Run which is not available anywhere in the
> RedHat ecosystem as far as I can tell. I'm trying to create custom postgres
> extensions and package them as RPMs for distribution. For that to work I
> need to match against the official PGDG packages. I can't even compile the
> extensions against PGDG's RedHat packages right now. Please advise.
>
> ```
> 25.67 Error:
> 25.67 Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
> 25.67 - nothing provides perl(IPC::Run) needed by
> postgresql16-devel-16.3-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 from pgdg16
> 25.67 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or
> '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
> ```
>
> Thank you for your advice and help.

You need to enable Rocky's Code Ready Builder repo like this:

|    dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb|

Not sure what the answer is for Alma/RH

cheers

andrew

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