Symptoms
When I try to upgrade from AlmaLinux or CloudLinux 8 to 9, I receive an ELevate error saying ELevate requires leapp-frame-work-dependencies, but none of the providers can be installed.
Description
When running ELevate, we encounter an issue with the packages needed to ELevate due to an unknown error while checking blockers.
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] Problem: package leapp-upgrade-el8toel9-1:0.22.0-3.el8.elevate.1.noarch from elevate requires leapp-framework >= 6.1, but none of the providers can be installed
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] - package python3-leapp-0.19.0-3.el8.elevate.1.noarch from elevate requires leapp-framework-dependencies = 6, but none of the providers can be installed
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] - package python3-leapp-0.19.0-3.el8.noarch from elevate requires leapp-framework-dependencies = 6, but none of the providers can be installed
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] - installed package leapp-deps-el8-5.0.8-100.202203181036Z.249925a3.master.el8.noarch obsoletes leapp-deps provided by leapp-deps-0.18.0-2.el8.noarch from elevate
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] - installed package leapp-deps-el8-5.0.8-100.202203181036Z.249925a3.master.el8.noarch obsoletes leapp-deps provided by leapp-deps-0.19.0-3.el8.elevate.1.noarch from elevate
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] - installed package leapp-deps-el8-5.0.8-100.202203181036Z.249925a3.master.el8.noarch obsoletes leapp-deps provided by leapp-deps-0.19.0-3.el8.noarch from elevate
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] - cannot install the best candidate for the job
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] - problem with installed package leapp-deps-el8-5.0.8-100.202203181036Z.249925a3.master.el8.noarch
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO] (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [INFO]
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [WARN] Unknown error while checking blockers: ‘/usr/bin/dnf -y install leapp-upgrade leapp-data-almalinux’ failed. Review and fix the error, then try again with ‘/scripts/elevate-cpanel --continue’ at /scripts/elevate-cpanel line 8417.
* 2025-09-26 16:46:46 [WARN] Please fix the detected issues before performing the elevation process.
Read More: https://cpanel.github.io/elevate/blockers/
Workaround
- Log in to your server via SSH as the root user
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Remove the leapp RPM using the command below.
rpm -e --nodeps --justdb leapp-deps-el8 -
Start the Elevate process
/scripts/elevate-cpanel --continue
