Zmanda server installation failing on Fedora servers

During the installation of Zmanda backup server package, a dependency failure is detected in Fedora systems.

This article is applicable only for 5.0 version

Analysis

The installation of backup server package may fail with the following error message

This is caused because, Zmanda is not able to find the "libnsl" package which is a dependency package required for the installation to work.

Solution

The solution is to manually install the "libnsl" package and retry the Zmanda installation.

Run the following commands to install this package

sudo dnf upgrade

sudo dnf install libnsl

After this you should be able to install the Zmanda packages successfully.