Hello Phil,
On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 22:55:30 +0000 Phil Perry <ppe...@elrepo.org> wrote: > On 07/12/2019 22:42, wwp wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been stuck for a while with an old version of firefox, installed > > from local .rpm (I know.. I should have downgraded using yum, instead) > > and added a exclude=firefox to the relevant .repo file. I did that > > after a yum-update has brought firefox 52+, and all add-ons were > > deprecated because of their new add-on scheme. > > > > Today that all the add-ons I need are available, I've tried upgrading > > to the latest Firefox version available from the updates repo.. I > > removed the exclude line in .repo file, but `yum update` didn't bring any > > firefox version at all: "No packages marked for update". I've struggled > > a bit, no way to get firefox installed using yum. See.. > > > > $ rpm -q firefox > > firefox-52.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 > > > > $ yum info firefox > > Installed Packages > > Name : firefox > > Arch : x86_64 > > Version : 52.8.0 > > Release : 1.el7.centos > > Size : 149 M > > Repo : installed > > From repo : /firefox-52.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 > > [snip] > > > > $ yum search firefox > > firefox.x86_64 : Mozilla Firefox Web browser > > > > $ yum update firefox > > No packages marked for update > > > > $ rpm -q firefox > > firefox-52.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 > > > > $ rpm -e firefox > > > > $ rpm -q firefox > > package firefox is not installed > > > > $ yum install firefox > > No package firefox available. > > > > Even: > > $ yum localinstall firefox-68.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm > > Examining firefox-68.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm: > > firefox-68.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 > > Nothing to do > > > > I still can install it using `rpm -i`, but I'm afraid yum-updates will not > > bring anything later. > > > > What an I doing wrong? > > > > > > Try 'yum clean all' and then try again - any good? Didn't help. > If not, what about: > > yum --disableexcludes=all install firefox > > I'm guessing it's still excluded somewhere even though you think you've > removed the exclude. Good guess, that one did help. Finally, thanks to your suggestion, I've found that it was an exclude line in /etc/yum.conf, PEBCAK. Many thanks, Phil! Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/
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