On 19/12/24 19:20, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 12/19/24 12:09 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:46:31 -0600 (CST), Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 12/17/24 8:15 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Did you try what it suggests? Add "--allowerasing" to the dnf command.
I have now and it seems to have done the job.
I hadn't before because it seemed like a generic suggestion,
like turn it off and on or reinstall Windows.
For some years, the number of conflicts (both implicit and explicit) in the
package collection has increased, unfortunately. The option --allowerasing
is sort of a big hammer, if users only specify that option when they run
into a failing transaction and then hope the tool will do the right thing
(as it replaces installed packages).
I've only had to use it with system-upgrade and in rare cases like this where there's a conflict between rpmfusion and the main Fedora repos.
Does --allowerasing only remove the offending package or does it also remove everything that has a dependency on that package as well? I've had similar sorts of conflicts with "freeworld" packages, so I've manually removed the freeworld package first, but I have also been in the situation where I've left things alone because the manual package removal wanted to remove half my system.
An example of this is Firefox, Firefox seems to be installed by default as part of installing Fedora, but I used the upstream nightly version of Firefox, so I don't want the repository version installed, but if I tell dnf to uninstall it, that process wants to remove half my system. Sorry that comment is just noise, I just tried it now and the issue seems to have been fixed in that it only wanted to remove 3 additional packages, one of which is mozilla-openh264 and I don't know whether removing that will impact other packages that want to use the h264 protocol.
regards,
Steve
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