Re: What's up with firefox on f26?

[Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


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