Upgrade downgrades Firefox

[Sawrub]

On 02/21/2010 08:16 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 13:57 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>    
>> Marcel Rieux wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Patrick Bartek<bartek047 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> --- On Sat, 2/20/10, Marcel Rieux<m.z.rieux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> I was running Firefox 3.6.? and
>>>>> upgrades were available today. After
>>>>> reboot, Firefox opened with version 3.5.8. I tried yum
>>>>> update
>>>>> firefox... and I apparently have the latest version!
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> What does 'yum info Firefox' report?  What version of Fedora are you using?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> yum info firefox
>>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>>> Installed Packages
>>> Name       : firefox
>>> Arch       : x86_64
>>> Version    : 3.5.8
>>> Release    : 1.fc12
>>> Size       : 17 M
>>> Repo       : installed
>>> > From repo  : updates
>>> Summary    : Mozilla Firefox Web browser
>>> URL        : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
>>> License    : MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+
>>> Description: Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for
>>>             : standards compliance, performance and portability.
>>>
>>> I was formerly running 3.6.? (whichever was current). Isn't it amazing
>>> that everybody doesn't have the same problem?
>>>
>>>        
>> This is probably because FF 3.5.8 is in the normal repository and FF
>> 3.6.0 is in rawhide.  3.5.8 is the most current for F12.  If you install
>> from rawhide you'll get 3.6.0.f13.
>>
>> You should check your yum.log to see what transpired and when.  FWIW,
>> I've seen some folks download FF3.6 from mozilla and install it
>> themselves.  i.e. non-RPM, forget what they did, and then wonder what
>> happened.
>>
>>
>>      
> This morning when I openned firefoc I got an offer to download firefox
> 3.6. A bz2 was downloaded and extracted. But no instructions appeared
> onn how to install it. How can it be installed? Or should it be
> installed this way?
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Seems that you are not using the firefox provided by fedora [customised] 
, its the one provided by mozilla. Will suggest to remove the one that 
is installed and download the one provided by Fedora using YUM.
All you need to do is at CLI is query the RPM DB for the installed 
firefox by 'rpm -q firefox', once listed remove the same firefox using 
'rpm -e firefox' and install the new one as 'yum install firefox'.

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