On 28/08/17 10:11, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/28/2017 08:03 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >> A recent update asked to remove firefox (55.0.1-1.fc26), and when I followed with >> an install >> I ended with the old version 54.0-2.fc26 installed. >> >> Attempting to upgrade to the latest goes nowhere (see below). >> I found a redhat bugzilla regarding an unwise decision to force an unnecessary >> dependency >>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484345 >> mentioning there is a new package (firefox-55.0.2-3), but it is not showing up. >> >> Anyone knows what is going on with this? >> Firefox is the most 'net facing application here and I need to have the latest >> version installed. >> >> TIA >> >> == >> $ sudo dnf update firefox >> Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:37 ago on Mon Aug 28 09:49:01 2017. >> Dependencies resolved. >> >>   Problem: problem with installed package nspr-devel-4.16.0-1.fc26.x86_64 >>    - package firefox-55.0.2-2.fc26.x86_64 conflicts with pkgconfig(nspr) >= 4.16 >> provided by nspr-devel-4.16.0-1.fc26.x86_64 >>    - cannot install the best update candidate for package firefox-54.0-2.fc26.x86_64 >> ============================================================================================================== >> >> >>   Package                   Arch                  Version >> Repository              Size >> ============================================================================================================== >> >> >> Skipping packages with conflicts: >> (add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade): >>   firefox                   x86_64                55.0.2-2.fc26 >> updates                 82 M >>   nspr-devel                x86_64                4.16.0-1.fc26 >> updates                119 k >> >> Transaction Summary >> ============================================================================================================== >> >> >> Skip  2 Packages >> >> Nothing to do. >> Complete! >> > > If you don't need it, or can do without it for a while, do a "dnf erase nspr-devel" > and then update firefox. > > [egreshko@acer ~]$ rpm -q firefox > firefox-55.0.2-2.fc26.x86_64 > [egreshko@acer ~]$ rpm -q nspr-devel > package nspr-devel is not installed Thanks. Tried this already but was not confident that it was safe to do: $ sudo dnf erase nspr-devel Dependencies resolved. ===================================================================================================================================================================================================================  Package                                                       Arch                                     Version                                              Repository                                       Size =================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Removing:  nspr-devel                                                    x86_64                                   4.16.0-1.fc26                                        @updates                                        446 k Removing depended packages:  evolution-data-server-devel                                   i686                                     3.24.5-1.fc26                                        @@commandline                                   4.8 M  evolution-data-server-devel                                   x86_64                                   3.24.5-1.fc26                                        @@commandline                                   4.8 M  libgdata-devel                                                x86_64                                   0.17.8-1.fc26                                        @@commandline                                   8.1 M  liboauth-devel                                                x86_64                                   1.0.3-6.fc26                                         @@commandline                                    42 k  nss-devel                                                     x86_64                                   3.32.0-1.1.fc26                                      @updates                                        813 k  nss-softokn-devel                                             x86_64                                   3.32.0-1.2.fc26                                      @updates                                         11 k  nss-util-devel                                                x86_64                                   3.32.0-1.0.fc26                                      @updates                                        259 k  xulrunner-devel                                               x86_64                                   44.0-9.fc26                                          @@commandline                                    54 M Removing unused dependencies:  webkitgtk4-devel                                              x86_64                                   2.16.6-1.fc26                                        @@commandline                                   2.7 M  webkitgtk4-jsc-devel                                          x86_64                                   2.16.6-1.fc26                                        @@commandline                                   327 k Transaction Summary =================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Remove  3 Packages Freed space: 77 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Operation aborted.