On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:18:03 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: > 2022-10-11 18:09 UTC+02:00, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:14:56 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: >> >>> If he did install it outside of Fedora, wouldn't it be better to >>> uninstall it and install the Fedora version? That way he would get >>> regular updates along with the rest of his packages. >> >> I've been running Ffx since it was iirc 'phoenix' and Fedora since >> it was RH7; I can't begin to recall all the tweaks I've tried since the >> Nineties. >> >> So do I have this right? I should run 'dnf remove firefox', then >> 'dny install firefox'. Reboot between? > > No, you should uninstall the Firefox you installed outside of Fedora, > not with dnf. > If you did not do that, then I don't know why it wants to upgrade > itself. > > I don't know how to check whether you installed it outside of Fedora. > But if > > rpm -q firefox > > says something positive, such as > > firefox-105.0.1-1.fc35.x86_64 > > and not > > package firefox is not installed > > then you have a version that is installed with dnf. In that case , if > > rpm -qV firefox > > returns with no messages, there is no reason to reinstall it with dnf. $ rpm -q firefox firefox-105.0.2-1.fc36.x86_64 [btth@localhost ~]$ rpm -qV firefox OK; so reinstalling is not the answer,alas! .... stan via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : You can fix this by going into edit->settings->general If you page down, near the bottom there will be a setting to allow or disable automatic updates. I tried that. Clicking on ">>" and scrolling got me to edit->settings->general (as did clicking on the equivalence sign, eventually), but I don't find the setting for automatic updates. Might it have been renamed? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
