cPanel Update Git Dependency Solution

Hello everyone. I’m going to talk about an issue that I’ve encountered before. Usually, I’ve solved it by removing the rpm package, but this time I fixed it by installing instead of removing. On one of the servers with cPanel installed, I ran 'yum update' and got the following error that blocked the process.

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: git-1.7.1-9.el6_9.x86_64 (@base)
Requires: perl-Git = 1.7.1-9.el6_9
Error: Package: git-1.7.1-9.el6_9.x86_64 (@base)
Requires: perl(Git)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

After seeing this error, I thought I could simply fix the issue by removing the git package, so I ran 'rpm -e git'. But I received a message saying that the git package was not installed. Then I ran 'rpm -qa | grep git' and confirmed there was no installed git package.

At that point, I was wondering why this error popped up in the middle of the night, so I started searching through the cPanel forums. They used similar commands. After struggling a bit, I finally found a working solution. Here are the commands you need to run:

yum install git --disableexcludes=main --skip-broken
yum clean all
yum update
/scripts/upcp --force

Of course, I tried several other commands in between, but this solution is what worked. I tested it on another server and it worked perfectly, so I’m sharing it with you fresh and hot.

Good luck, everyone!