Tom Sightler wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 08:43 -0600, Peter Ruprecht wrote:
# yum update firefox
<snip>
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
...
I can't see why I need to install KDE just to run firefox...
Perhaps I'm misreading, but based on the output it's not Firefox pulling
in KDE, but rather it appears to me that you have kdebase already
installed and the new kdebase in pulling in additional dependencies.
See the output:
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kdebase.i386 6:3.5.4-21.el5_5.1 set to be updated
Notice it says kdebase is "set to be updated" not "set to be installed".
That indicates that "kdebase" is already installed. If you don't want
KDE at all then remove kdebase and then run the update.
I have no problem installing firefox-3.6.4, either 32 or 64 bit, on my
RHEL5 systems without KDE.
Later,
Tom
No, kdebase is not already installed. From the system in question:
# rpm -qa | grep kde
lockdev-devel-1.0.1-10.x86_64
lockdev-1.0.1-10.x86_64
lockdev-1.0.1-10.i386
lockdev-devel-1.0.1-10.i386
On a number of my workstations, firefox 3.6.4 installs without
unexpected dependencies. But on about half, it seems to want to pull in
about 100M worth of seemingly extraneous stuff. (This is just with a
"yum update firefox" on the command line.) As not all of the systems in
the department have exactly the same software load, there may be some
set of packages that triggers the problem. Anyway, I'll open a bug
report soon with the details ... which may only be interesting to a
small subset of RHEL users!
Oh, one other thing with 3.6.4, which the release notes allude to, you
may find that you have to use a newer version (1.6 vs 1.5) of the 32-bit
JRE and java plugin for compatibility.
Thanks,
Peter
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