Re: Unable to upgrade firefox in F7 (needs gecko-libs = 1.8.1.3, this is not available.)

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On 27/12/2007, Jesus Jr M Salvo <jesus.m.salvo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25/12/2007, garys@xxxxxxxxx <garys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  Looks like you upgraded to fc7 and you have a bunch of fc6 packages still
> > floating around. Try "yum remove yelp devhelp gecko-libs"
> >                               ............gary
> >
>
> No. This was a fresh install of F7 about a year ago on a new laptop.
> OTOH, I decided to remove the packages yelp and devhelp, since no
> other packages depend on these two ... and was finally able to upgrade
> firefox ... which begs the question, why did the upgrade for firefox
> required gecko-libs ?

Because it is included within the firefox package. It is a virtual
package. Examine "rpm --query --provides firefox | grep gecko". Other
packages (not limited to yelp and devhelp) depend on a specific
version of the Gecko Runtime Environment because often they access the
libraries in a specific path which contains the Gecko version.
Therefore they require a specific version of either the firefox
package or its virtual gecko-libs package. You can only upgrade all at
once.

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