yum does not update

Issue

On an attempt to run 'dnf update' or 'yum update' on CloudLinux 8 you are getting an error with text like the following:

Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package my_cool_package.el8.cloudlinux.x86_64, example below:

Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package ea-apache24-mod_lsapi-1:1.1-55.el8.cloudlinux.x86_64
- nothing provides liblsapi = 1:1.1-56.el8.cloudlinux needed by ea-apache24-mod_lsapi-1:1.1-56.el8.cloudlinux.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package grub2-common-1:2.02-90.el8_3.1.noarch
- problem with installed package grub2-efi-aa64-modules-1:2.02-90.el8_3.1.noarch
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

Environment

• CloudLinux 8

Solution

Try editing your /etc/yum.conf file and set best=False:

# cat /etc/yum.conf | grep "best="
best=True

Edit to:

# cat /etc/yum.conf | grep "best="
best=False

Then run:

yum clean all