On 07/07/2016 03:45 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Greg Woods <wo...@ucar.edu > <mailto:wo...@ucar.edu>> wrote: > > On 07/04/16 07:23, Greg Woods wrote: > > I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different > hardware) from > > F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be > badly messed up in > > the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that > google-chrome-stable was > > uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it: > > > I have not been able to resolve the original issue, but I was finally > able to install google-chrome-stable. I believe this only worked because > the google-chrome packages are intended to run on different distros, and > the distros use different names for the packages, and so the > dependencies for google-chrome-stable are on specific files rather than > on packages (e.g. /usr/bin/foomatic-rip rather than cups-filters). It > appears that google-chrome and a number of the cups packages were > deleted during the upgrade for unknown reasons (presumably related to > whatever the underlying package management problem is). I found this out > because printing wasn't working any more either. (I did end up having to > use "--allowerasing", but it seems like I always end up having to do > that in order to get "dnf system-upgrade" to work. This is the first > (and second) time that I have ever had anything like this happen as a > result though). > > Since I have my own copy of the fedora repos, I mounted it and went in > to the Packages/c directory and installed the cups packages directly > from RPMs. Doing this brought back memories of the pre-yum "dependency > hell" days. I attempt to install cups-client*.rpm and it says "nothing > provides cups-libs". So I add that RPM to the list and another is > needed, etc. I ended up having to specify about 8 different RPMs in > order to get cups-client and cups-filters to install. After installing > those, I was able to install google-chrome-stable, and printing now works. > > Unfortunately, "dnf list cups\*" still says there are no matching > packages, whereas "rpm -qa | grep cups" shows them. So although chrome > and printing are working again, the system is not updateable. So I still > eventually need to find out what the heck happened during the upgrade > and how to fix it.
Remember that rpm is querying the rpm database locally and doesn't check the web. The behavior of dnf sure looks like you have some weird options set in the dnf.conf or repo files (like excludes and such). You could try "dnf -d 10 list cups*" and look carefully at the output. Perhaps you'll see something odd in the repos or plugins or cache or _something_. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
