Cant update tor on fedora 43, missing dependencies

jagdtigger · November 23, 2025, 10:46pm

Helo all!

Ran into a bit of an issue after upgrading fedora 1st from 40→42, then 42→43 (its a long story why i didnt do it sooner before 40 eol). Everything went fine, except for updating tor. When i try to update it with dnf i get this:

root@fedora-s-1vcpu-1gb-fra1-01 ~]# dnf update -y
Updating and loading repositories:
 Fedora 43 - x86_64 - Updates                                                                           100% |  13.7 KiB/s |   5.1 KiB |  00m00s
 DigitalOcean Droplet Agent                                                                             100% | 111.4 KiB/s |   3.5 KiB |  00m00s
Repositories loaded.
Problem: package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires group(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires user(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor and tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - cannot install both tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64 from fedora and tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64

Tried google but i havent found anything that is similar to my case….

Lind · November 24, 2025, 9:22am

There seems to be something wrong with your Fedora repository configuration. Usually on a standard Fedora 43 installation, at least two repositories are enabled, one “Fedora 43” (Fedora repository) and one “Fedora 43 - Updates” (Fedora updates repository). But “Fedora 43” didn’t seem to be fetch when you run dnf update on your VPS.
Can you show me the file content of /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo?

Fedora repository
Fedora updates repository

jagdtigger · November 24, 2025, 1:58pm

Here you go:

[root@fedora-s-1vcpu-1gb-fra1-01 ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.example/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
countme=1
metadata_expire=7d
repo_gpgcheck=0
type=rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.example/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/tree/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
repo_gpgcheck=0
type=rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
#baseurl=http://download.example/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/tree/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
repo_gpgcheck=0
type=rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

Now to think of it i shouldve tacked “–refresh” at the end to force dnf to not use the cache:

[root@fedora-s-1vcpu-1gb-fra1-01 ~]# dnf update -y --refresh
Updating and loading repositories:
 Fedora 43 - x86_64 - Updates                                                                                         100% |   4.1 KiB/s |   6.6 KiB |  00m02s
 Fedora 43 - x86_64                                                                                                   100% |  18.0 KiB/s |  23.3 KiB |  00m01s
 Tor for Fedora 43 - x86_64                                                                                           100% |  44.9 KiB/s |   3.0 KiB |  00m00s
 DigitalOcean Droplet Agent                                                                                           100% |  51.6 KiB/s |   3.5 KiB |  00m00s
 Fedora 43 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                                             100% |   1.8 KiB/s | 986.0   B |  00m01s
Repositories loaded.
Problem: package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires group(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires user(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor and tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - cannot install both tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor and tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64 from fedora
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64

Package                                              Arch         Version                                               Repository                        Size
Skipping packages with conflicts:
 tor                                                 x86_64       0.4.8.21-1.fc43                                       tor                           33.0 MiB
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 tor                                                 x86_64       0.4.8.21-1.fc43                                       tor                           33.0 MiB

Nothing to do.

picklebearfeather · November 25, 2025, 9:46am

Same problem over here, same configuration. so something seems wrong in the repo

Lind · November 25, 2025, 10:07am

Hmm… The repository configuration seems correct. I’ll test some more to see what is going on.

picklebearfeather · November 25, 2025, 10:07am

sudo dnf install tor --repo=tor
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: conflicting requests

nothing provides group(toranon) needed by tor-0.4.8.19-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor

nothing provides torsocks needed by tor-0.4.8.19-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor

nothing provides user(toranon) needed by tor-0.4.8.19-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor

nothing provides group(toranon) needed by tor-0.4.8.20-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor

nothing provides torsocks needed by tor-0.4.8.20-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor

nothing provides user(toranon) needed by tor-0.4.8.20-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor

nothing provides group(toranon) needed by tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor

nothing provides torsocks needed by tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor

nothing provides user(toranon) needed by tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor
You can try to add to command line:
–skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages

it would be nice that after the gpg problem earlier this year, that we finally get a working repo for fedora.

Protium_serratum · November 25, 2025, 11:42pm

Could you uninstall then reinstall tor? And don’t forget to backup the data. I also encountered Skipping packages with conflicts before.

Lind · November 25, 2025, 11:42pm

Something’s wrong with this repo. Just installed f43 myself and I can’t update from this repo, either.

root@fedora:~# dnf install --best tor
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires group(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires user(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor and tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64 from fedora
  - cannot install the best candidate for the job
You can try to add to command line:
  --no-best to not limit the transaction to the best candidates
  --skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages
root@fedora:~# dnf install tor
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Problem: package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires group(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires user(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor and tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64 from fedora
  - cannot install the best candidate for the job

Package                                             Arch         Version                                              Repository                        Size
Installing:
 tor                                                x86_64       0.4.8.17-3.fc43                                      fedora                        28.7 MiB
Installing dependencies:
 torsocks                                           x86_64       2.4.0-10.fc43                                        fedora                       152.7 KiB
Skipping packages with conflicts:
 tor                                                x86_64       0.4.8.21-1.fc43                                      tor                           33.0 MiB
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 tor                                                x86_64       0.4.8.21-1.fc43                                      tor                           33.0 MiB

Transaction Summary:
 Installing:         2 packages
 Skipping:           2 packages

Total size of inbound packages is 4 MiB. Need to download 4 MiB.
After this operation, 29 MiB extra will be used (install 29 MiB, remove 0 B).
Is this ok [y/N]:

Lind · November 26, 2025, 11:54am

Still doesn’t work. dnf skipped the conflicting version in Tor repository and installed Tor from Fedora’s repository.

Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Problem: package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires group(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor requires user(toranon), but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both tor-0.4.8.21-1.fc43.x86_64 from tor and tor-0.4.8.17-3.fc43.x86_64 from fedora
  - cannot install the best candidate for the job

Package                                             Arch         Version                                              Repository                        Size
Installing:
 tor                                                x86_64       0.4.8.17-3.fc43                                      fedora                        28.7 MiB
Installing dependencies:
 torsocks                                           x86_64       2.4.0-10.fc43                                        fedora                       152.7 KiB
Skipping packages with conflicts:
 tor                                                x86_64       0.4.8.21-1.fc43                                      tor                           33.0 MiB
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 tor                                                x86_64       0.4.8.21-1.fc43                                      tor                           33.0 MiB

picklebearfeather · November 27, 2025, 8:03am

this is exactly what I showed in my code. So we are already 3 people having the same problem with the same official repo