Description of problem: dnf refuses to find matches even when they clearly exist... just give it enough things to find that don't, and it won't even install the ones that do: $ sudo dnf install streamripper dropbox keychain pv strace ltrace xv powertop iotop htop mtr openssh-askpass kdump links tmux Last metadata expiration check: 1:39:15 ago on Fri 04 May 2018 05:09:39 PM EDT. No match for argument: streamripper No match for argument: dropbox No match for argument: xv Package mtr-2:0.92-1.fc28.x86_64 is already installed, skipping. No match for argument: kdump Package tmux-2.7-1.fc28.x86_64 is already installed, skipping. Error: Unable to find a match $ $ # Even though htop is a match and can be installed: $ $ sudo dnf install htop Last metadata expiration check: 1:39:31 ago on Fri 04 May 2018 05:09:39 PM EDT. Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: htop x86_64 2.1.0-1.fc28 fedora 108 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package Total download size: 108 k Installed size: 233 k ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dnf-2.7.5-12.fc28.noarch
Do you have any modules on your system? If so are there any default streams (look for [d] in stream column in 'dnf module list') or enabled streams?
Also please paste the output of $ dnf repolist
$ sudo dnf module list Last metadata expiration check: 1:27:36 ago on Mon 07 May 2018 07:54:04 AM EDT. Nothing to show. $ sudo dnf repolist Last metadata expiration check: 1:28:00 ago on Mon 07 May 2018 07:54:04 AM EDT. repo id repo name status *fedora Fedora 28 - x86_64 57,317 google-chrome google-chrome 3 google-chrome-beta google-chrome-beta 3 *rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Free 559 *rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Free - Updates 46 *rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Nonfree 203 *rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 28 - Nonfree - Updates 5 *updates Fedora 28 - x86_64 - Updates 2,594
I configured the same repos as you. This is the result when I run the install command: $: sudo dnf install streamripper dropbox keychain pv strace ltrace xv powertop iotop htop mtr openssh-askpass kdump links tmux Last metadata expiration check: 0:06:07 ago on Mon 07 May 2018 18:27:35 CEST. Package strace-4.22-1.fc28.x86_64 is already installed, skipping. Package ltrace-0.7.91-24.fc27.x86_64 is already installed, skipping. Package htop-2.1.0-1.fc28.x86_64 is already installed, skipping. Package mtr-2:0.92-1.fc28.x86_64 is already installed, skipping. No match for argument: kdump Error: Unable to find a match So the only package missing is kdump which can be installed as per these instructions: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_kdump_to_debug_kernel_crashes
That misses the point of the bug. The issue isn't missing packages. The issue is that some of what is specified is *not* missing, but dnf acts as if it is, and doesn't install it. Here is another test I just ran: $ sudo dnf remove -y htop ... $ rpm -q htop package htop is not installed $ sudo dnf install missing1 missing2 missing3 htop missing4 missing5 missing6 Last metadata expiration check: 2:22:10 ago on Mon 07 May 2018 01:54:20 PM EDT. No match for argument: missing1 No match for argument: missing2 No match for argument: missing3 No match for argument: missing4 No match for argument: missing5 No match for argument: missing6 Error: Unable to find a match $ # Note that htop *is* available, but dnf acts like it isn't. $ # This doesn't work either: $ sudo dnf install mispeled_package htop Last metadata expiration check: 2:25:39 ago on Mon 07 May 2018 01:54:20 PM EDT. No match for argument: mispeled_package Error: Unable to find a match Is this expected behavior? If I ask for multiple installs, or even just two installs, and even just one of them isn't available, should they all fail?
Behaviour from comment#5 is expected. Opposed to yum, dnf will not silently skip broken/missing packages. If you want it to skip, please, use --skip-broken argument.