RHEL6 + Error: xz compression not available

Question

When installing packages via yum on a RHEL Server 6.6 system, I get the following error:

$ sudo yum install foo
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
Setting up Install Process
Error: xz compression not available

Search engine searches suggest that the pyliblzma package is missing.

I can't install this via sudo yum install pyliblzma because I run into the same xz compression not available error.

Instead, I downloaded the RPM archive and installed it via rpm:

$ wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS/pyliblzma-0.5.3-3.el6.src.rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh pyliblzma-0.5.3-3.el6.src.rpm

It appears to not have been installed successfully; the following returns no results:

$ rpm -qa | grep pyliblzma

What should I do to correctly install pyliblzma and fix the xz compression not available error?

Dodgy version of xz installed (i.e. the EPEL version and not the RHEL version) ? — steve, Aug 26 '15 at 19:03
Have you tried `yum clean all` and then `rpmdb -v --rebuilddb`, then try running `yum install foo`? And by the way, I see you have installed source rpm, I am not sure if that's any good. — Soumyadip DM, Aug 26 '15 at 19:16
As @SoumyadipDM mentioned, you installed a source package - src.rpm - which contains the source code and .spec file to build a binary rpm. What you should download instead is http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/pyliblzma-0.5.3-3.el6.x86_64.rpm Apart from that, `yum clean all` or `rpm --rebuilddb` won't help. Would be interesting to know how you ended up with this issue ... — doktor5000, Aug 27 '15 at 20:41

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 27 '15 at 21:20

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To fix this:

yum remove epel-release
Re-download the epel-release RPM
Install it
yum install pyliblzma

answered Aug 27 '15 at 21:20

Alex Reynolds

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also needed "yum clean all" before "yum install pybliblzma" – sivann Sep 30 '15 at 07:53
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didn't worked for me. – Sanjeev Kumar Dangi Aug 08 '16 at 13:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 06 '16 at 15:06

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Worked for me on CentOS 6.X

sudo rpm -e epel-release-7-5.noarch

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

sudo yum clean all

sudo rpmdb -v --rebuilddb

sudo yum -y install libselinux-python

edited Oct 06 '16 at 15:06

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answered Oct 06 '16 at 14:49

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 22 '15 at 05:01

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This worked for me:

yum remove epel-release
# Re-download the epel-release RPM
# Install it
yum install pyliblzma

edited Oct 22 '15 at 05:01

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answered Oct 22 '15 at 04:57

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RHEL6 + Error: xz compression not available

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