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OCI: Unable to Remove Python2 Packages After Upgrading from OL7 to OL8

in Linux

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Linux 8

Symptoms:

Attempting to remove python2 rpm using DNF results in a dependency error:

#sudo dnf remove python2
Error:
Problem: package leapp-0.17.0-1.0.2.el7_9.noarch from @System requires /usr/bin/python2

Attempting to remove the leapp package also fails with the below error. 

#sudo dnf remove leapp
No packages marked for removal.
All matches were filtered out by exclude filtering for argument: leapp

Manual check confirms that both the packages are installed.

#sudo rpm -qa | grep -E 'leapp|python2|el7'
leapp-0.17.0-1.0.2.el7_9.noarch                             Sat Jan 18 05:13:49 2025                                                  
leapp-upgrade-el7toel8-0.20.0-2.0.5.el7_9.noarch            Sat Jan 18 05:13:51 2025
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