Oracle Linux: Error "nothing provides sysstat" when installing OSWatcher using Yum or DNF in Oracle Linux 8 (Doc ID 2705148.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

When installing OSWatcher using DNF/YUM in Oracle Linux 8, errors below can be encountered:

[root@hostname ~]# dnf install oswatcher
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:38 ago on Tue 25 Aug 2020 05:41:10 EDT.
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides sysstat needed by oswatcher-8.3.0-5.el8.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

Changes

System is using a local repository server in installing packages - a Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) Mirror

Cause

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