Plesk installation on CentOS 8 fails: nothing provides

Symptoms

• Plesk’s installation on CentOS 8 fails with the error:

  dnf.exceptions.DepsolveError:
  Problem 1: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides perl(Digest::SHA1) needed by plesk-core-18.0-2.centos.8+p18.0.31.2+t201127.1705.x86_64
  Problem 2: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides perl(Digest::SHA1) needed by plesk-core-utilities-18.0-2.centos.8+p18.0.31.2+t201127.1705.x86_64
  - nothing provides perl-JSON-XS needed by plesk-core-utilities-18.0-2.centos.8+p18.0.31.2+t201127.1705.x86_64
  - nothing provides sharutils needed by plesk-core-utilities-18.0-2.centos.8+p18.0.31.2+t201127.1705.x86_64
  ...

• The PowerTools repository is disabled

Cause

The PowerTools repository is needed for Plesk installation.

Resolution

1. Connect to the server via SSH

2. Edit file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-PowerTools.repo

3. Change the value of the parameter enabled from 0 to 1:

   enabled=1