If you are installing this software on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server, you will have to subscribe to the "RHEL Server Optional" before attempting to install this component. If you do not enable this channel, you will receive an error that looks similar to this: --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: BackupPC-3.2.1-1.el6.x86_64 (epel) Requires: perl(Archive::Zip) Error: Package: BackupPC-3.2.1-1.el6.x86_64 (epel) Requires: perl(XML::RSS) Error: Package: BackupPC-3.2.1-1.el6.x86_64 (epel) Requires: perl-Time-modules Error: Package: BackupPC-3.2.1-1.el6.x86_64 (epel) Requires: perl(Time::ParseDate) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest References: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11313 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749627