On Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:51:46 -0700 Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
There's one package that I can't get upgraded, and it's driving me up the wall because every time I run an update via yum or yumex, I have to remember to exclude it: firefox. Here's the results of my latest try:
Transaction check error: file /usr/lib/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences from install of firefox-22.0-1.fc19.i686 conflicts with file from package firefox-22.0-1.fc17.i686
What happens if you just try to "yum remove firefox" and after that is done do a "yum install firefox"?
Since I remember you saying something about salvaging a half-updated machine, did you
(1) do "yum distro-sync full", (2) make sure that /etc/os-release says Fedora 19, and (3) check that repository definitions under /etc/yum.repos.d/ actually point to Fedora 19 repos?
Also, I vaguely remember that upgrading from F17 to F19 is not exactly a great idea, and that you'd be better off upgrading to F18 first, and only after that upgrade to F19. Though I believe it's now obsolete advice, given that you have already performed the upgrade... ;-)
HTH, :-) Marko