nextcloud from appstream is missing dependencies

Question

I want to install nextcloud on (Oracle Linux 8 or CentOS 8) from appstream.

Is it broken or am I doing something wrong?

dnf module enable nextcloud:24

dnf module install nextcloud/default

Error: 
 Problem 1: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides php-pecl-imagick needed by nextcloud-24.0.3-1.module_el8+14920+386fda55.noarch
  - nothing provides php-pecl-memcached needed by nextcloud-24.0.3-1.module_el8+14920+386fda55.noarch
  - nothing provides php-pecl-redis5 needed by nextcloud-24.0.3-1.module_el8+14920+386fda55.noarch
  - nothing provides php-smbclient needed by nextcloud-24.0.3-1.module_el8+14920+386fda55.noarch

the same for nextcloud 23.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '22 at 15:46

It appears that RHEL does not package some of the required PHP modules to properly install the latest version of NextCloud.

According to the NextCloud documentation for installing on RHEL/CentOS/Oracle 8 it appears that PHP is required to be installed from Remi's RPM Repository as they do provide packages of the PHP modules missing from the RHEL repositories.

The following commands would be required after a fresh install of RHEL/CentOS/Oracle 8 to install NextCloud 24 from Appstream while using PHP 7.4 from Remi:

# get the Remi repository configuration for EL8 and install it
dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
# reset the current PHP `dnf` module
dnf module reset php
# install PHP 7.4 from Remi's repository
dnf module install php:remi-7.4
# enable NextCloud `dnf` module
dnf module enable nextcloud:24
# install NextCloud
dnf module install nextcloud/default

That should get NextCloud installed, then you can continue to configure it.

Since Remi offers all current versions of PHP, you should be able to use the dnf module php:remi-8.0 or php:remi-8.1 to satisfy the PHP dependencies of NextCloud if you want to upgrade from PHP 7.4.

nextcloud from appstream is missing dependencies

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