On 08/28/2017 08:34 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 28/08/17 10:11, Ed Greshko wrote:
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
Thanks. Tried this already but was not confident that it was safe to do:
$ sudo dnf erase nspr-devel Dependencies resolved. ===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size ===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Removing: nspr-devel x86_64 4.16.0-1.fc26 @updates 446 k Removing depended packages: evolution-data-server-devel i686 3.24.5-1.fc26 @@commandline 4.8 M evolution-data-server-devel x86_64 3.24.5-1.fc26 @@commandline 4.8 M libgdata-devel x86_64 0.17.8-1.fc26 @@commandline 8.1 M liboauth-devel x86_64 1.0.3-6.fc26 @@commandline 42 k nss-devel x86_64 3.32.0-1.1.fc26 @updates 813 k nss-softokn-devel x86_64 3.32.0-1.2.fc26 @updates 11 k nss-util-devel x86_64 3.32.0-1.0.fc26 @updates 259 k xulrunner-devel x86_64 44.0-9.fc26 @@commandline 54 M Removing unused dependencies: webkitgtk4-devel x86_64 2.16.6-1.fc26 @@commandline 2.7 M webkitgtk4-jsc-devel x86_64 2.16.6-1.fc26 @@commandline 327 k
Transaction Summary
Remove 3 Packages
Freed space: 77 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Operation aborted.
The *-devel packages are "development" packages that are use if you're building or recompiling source.
Most people never need these. Removing them will not cause anything to break. Just won't be able to build some packages on your own.