On 28/08/17 10:46, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 08/28/2017 08:34 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 28/08/17 10:11, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 08/28/2017 08:03 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
A recent update asked to remove firefox (55.0.1-1.fc26), and when I followed
with
an install
I ended with the old version 54.0-2.fc26 installed.
Attempting to upgrade to the latest goes nowhere (see below).
I found a redhat bugzilla regarding an unwise decision to force an unnecessary
dependency
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484345
mentioning there is a new package (firefox-55.0.2-3), but it is not showing up.
Anyone knows what is going on with this?
Firefox is the most 'net facing application here and I need to have the latest
version installed.
TIA
==
$ sudo dnf update firefox
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:37 ago on Mon Aug 28 09:49:01 2017.
Dependencies resolved.
Problem: problem with installed package nspr-devel-4.16.0-1.fc26.x86_64
- package firefox-55.0.2-2.fc26.x86_64 conflicts with pkgconfig(nspr) >=
4.16
provided by nspr-devel-4.16.0-1.fc26.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package
firefox-54.0-2.fc26.x86_64
==============================================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
==============================================================================================================
Skipping packages with conflicts:
(add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade):
firefox x86_64 55.0.2-2.fc26
updates 82 M
nspr-devel x86_64 4.16.0-1.fc26
updates 119 k
Transaction Summary
==============================================================================================================
Skip 2 Packages
Nothing to do.
Complete!
If you don't need it, or can do without it for a while, do a "dnf erase
nspr-devel"
and then update firefox.
[egreshko@acer ~]$ rpm -q firefox
firefox-55.0.2-2.fc26.x86_64
[egreshko@acer ~]$ rpm -q nspr-devel
package nspr-devel is not installed
Thanks. Tried this already but was not confident that it was safe to do:
$ sudo dnf erase nspr-devel
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package
Arch
Version
Repository Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Removing:
nspr-devel
x86_64
4.16.0-1.fc26
@updates 446 k
Removing depended packages:
evolution-data-server-devel
i686
3.24.5-1.fc26
@@commandline 4.8 M
evolution-data-server-devel
x86_64
3.24.5-1.fc26
@@commandline 4.8 M
libgdata-devel
x86_64
0.17.8-1.fc26
@@commandline 8.1 M
liboauth-devel
x86_64
1.0.3-6.fc26
@@commandline 42 k
nss-devel
x86_64
3.32.0-1.1.fc26
@updates 813 k
nss-softokn-devel
x86_64
3.32.0-1.2.fc26
@updates 11 k
nss-util-devel
x86_64
3.32.0-1.0.fc26
@updates 259 k
xulrunner-devel
x86_64
44.0-9.fc26
@@commandline 54 M
Removing unused dependencies:
webkitgtk4-devel
x86_64
2.16.6-1.fc26
@@commandline 2.7 M
webkitgtk4-jsc-devel
x86_64
2.16.6-1.fc26
@@commandline 327 k
Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Remove 3 Packages
Freed space: 77 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Operation aborted.
The *-devel packages are "development" packages that are use if you're building
or
recompiling source.
Most people never need these. Removing them will not cause anything to break.
Just
won't be able to build some packages on your own.
True, but I do build packages at times. Nevertheless, I can always reinstall
the dependencies when needed,
so I'll bite now and see how it goes.
Still, it is probably a good idea to fix the root cause...
cheers
--
Eyal Lebedinsky (fed...@eyal.emu.id.au)
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