-----Original Message----- From: Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org To: hlhowell@pacbell.net, Development discussions related to Fedora <de vel@lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: Re: failure of f24 to f25 upgrade Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:22:31 -0800
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 12:15 -0800, Howard Howell wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org To: hlhowell@pacbell.net, Development discussions related to Fedora <de vel@lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: Re: failure of f24 to f25 upgrade Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:11:29 -0800
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 12:05 -0800, Howard Howell wrote:
Since the dnf erase command doesn't work, or tries to remove over 211M of files, do you mean just to remove the directory tree for the offending package using the rm command?
Sorry, I missed that part. I use 'dnf remove', but I don't know if there's any difference between that and 'dnf erase'. But when you say '211M of files', that could just be Google Earth itself; it's a pretty big app. What exactly is the output from 'dnf remove google-earth'?
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Wow, yeah. There is something weird going on there. It looks a lot like the google-earth stuff is providing some kind of core stuff which should usually come from a Fedora package, so that package isn't installed. But I dunno how you got in that state in the *first* place. What does `rpm -q --provides google-earth` show?
sorry for the second reply... but, google earth still works. I don't remember when exactly I installed it, or from where. I was deep into a bit of friends code he is using on robotics, which uses the google earth api for its mapping. I get one track minded when chasing software, and that package is 4 or 5 languages, deep directory stuff, lots of indirect and text parsing in the web interface, so my mind was in a different space when it asked for google earth. I normally load such things just using dnf install, but I seem to remember that I couldn't find google earth with dns (probably typos or text inversion), so I may have downloaded it from google. Speed kills!