RockyLinux 8.9: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.26.15) or chardet (3.0.4) doesn't match a supported version!

[tjyang]

• I am creating this issue to track the issue and solution when running zabbix-cli on rockylinux 8

  
  [me@rocky8t01d ~]$  zabbix-cli -C "shell cat /etc/redhat-release"
  /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/__init__.py:91: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.26.15) or chardet (3.0.4) doesn't match a supported version!
  RequestsDependencyWarning)
  Rocky Linux release 8.9 (Green Obsidian)
  [me@rocky8t01d ~]$
  [me@rocky8t01d ~]$ rpm -qa |egrep "urllib|chardet"
  python3-urllib3-1.24.2-5.el8.noarch
  python3-chardet-3.0.4-7.el8.noarch
  [me@rocky8t01d ~]$

- Docs
    - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56155627/requestsdependencywarning-urllib3-1-25-2-or-chardet-3-0-4-doesnt-match-a-s

[tjyang]

• Update to 2.20.1 fix the issue, the stock python3-requests on RL8.9 is too old. [me@rocky8t01d zabbix-cli]$ sudo pip3.6 install --upgrade requests==2.20.1 [me@rocky8t01d zabbix-cli]$ zabbix-cli -C "shell cat /etc/redhat-release" Rocky Linux release 8.9 (Green Obsidian) [me@rocky8t01d zabbix-cli]$ date Mon Nov 27 11:57:15 CST 2023 [me@rocky8t01d zabbix-cli]$