chrome on f18 (fix)

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 14:00:39 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 22:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > I noticed that during the erase action, yum showed the repo as
> > "@google-chrome/17", but during the install it shows as
> "google-chrome".
> > The Chrome versions are exactly the same, so as you say there is
> clearly
> > some magic happening during the install which is different from F17
> to
> > F18.
> 
> FWIW, instead of doing the remove/install procedure I simply did
> 
> yum reinstall google-chrome-stable
> 
> to get it working again.
> 
> I suppose I should care why it worked, and why it failed in the first
> place.....   :-)

I considered that, but I wanted to watch what was happening. Reinstall
is *probably* the same as erase/install, but then again it might not be.

poc



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