On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Greg Woods <woods@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 07/04/16 07:23, Greg Woods wrote:
> I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different hardware) from
> F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be badly messed up in
> the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that google-chrome-stable was
> uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it:
I have not been able to resolve the original issue, but I was finally able to install google-chrome-stable. I believe this only worked because the google-chrome packages are intended to run on different distros, and the distros use different names for the packages, and so the dependencies for google-chrome-stable are on specific files rather than on packages (e.g. /usr/bin/foomatic-rip rather than cups-filters). It appears that google-chrome and a number of the cups packages were deleted during the upgrade for unknown reasons (presumably related to whatever the underlying package management problem is). I found this out because printing wasn't working any more either. (I did end up having to use "--allowerasing", but it seems like I always end up having to do that in order to get "dnf system-upgrade" to work. This is the first (and second) time that I have ever had anything like this happen as a result though).
Since I have my own copy of the fedora repos, I mounted it and went in to the Packages/c directory and installed the cups packages directly from RPMs. Doing this brought back memories of the pre-yum "dependency hell" days. I attempt to install cups-client*.rpm and it says "nothing provides cups-libs". So I add that RPM to the list and another is needed, etc. I ended up having to specify about 8 different RPMs in order to get cups-client and cups-filters to install. After installing those, I was able to install google-chrome-stable, and printing now works.
Unfortunately, "dnf list cups\*" still says there are no matching packages, whereas "rpm -qa | grep cups" shows them. So although chrome and printing are working again, the system is not updateable. So I still eventually need to find out what the heck happened during the upgrade and how to fix it.
--Greg
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