CentOS 8.x dnf verify installed packages

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To verify all installed packages use:

  rpm --verify -a

Note that this does not checks for missing dependencies. For that use:

  yum check dependencies

which finds issues with dependencies of installed programs.

On CentOS 8 this shows:

  Modular dependency problems:

 Problem 1: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBD-MySQL:4.046:8010020191114030811:073fa5fe-0.x86_64
 Problem 2: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBD-SQLite:1.58:8010020191114033549:073fa5fe-0.x86_64
 Problem 3: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBI:1.641:8010020191113222731:16b3ab4d-0.x86_64

Unfortunately dnf works better on CentOS 8 then yum and hence ' yum check dependencies' does not helps and results in output similar to:

Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 2:54:55 ago on Sun 12 Apr 2020 10:31:51 PM IST.
Package perl-4:5.26.3-416.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!  
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However with dnf we can do:
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  dnf module list perl

which results into

Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 2:55:37 ago on Sun 12 Apr 2020 10:31:51 PM IST.
CentOS-8 - AppStream
Name                    Stream                      Profiles                               Summary                                                    
perl                    5.24                        common [d], minimal                    Practical Extraction and Report Language                   
perl                    5.26 [d]                    common [d], minimal                    Practical Extraction and Report Language                   

Hint: [d]efault, [e]nabled, [x]disabled, [i]nstalled

Then use:

dnf module -y install perl:5.26

which shows output

Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 2:56:05 ago on Sun 12 Apr 2020 10:31:51 PM IST.
Dependencies resolved.
======================================================================================================================================================
 Package                             Architecture                       Version                             Repository                           Size
======================================================================================================================================================
Installing module profiles:
 perl/common                                                                                                                                         
Enabling module streams:
 perl                                                                   5.26                                                                         

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================================================

Complete!

Refer:

• https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_8&p=perl&f=2

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