Samuel Sieb wrote:
> After upgrading FC27 to FC28 (x86_64), Thunderbird became very
> unreliable and useful extensions stopped working. I decided to take the
> easy solution and just downgrade Thunderbird back to what I had with
> FC27. But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is dependent on
> Thunderbird, and deletes it! It certainly shouldn't be dependent!
The output from dnf would be useful.
Here you go. (Repos fedora27 and updates27 are local mirrors of the FC27
repos.
# dnf --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 --enablerepo=updates27
downgrade thunderbird-52.9.1-1.fc27.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Tue 23 Oct 2018 12:32:34
PM PDT.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository
Size
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Removing dependent packages:
libreoffice-base x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
5.9 M
libreoffice-calc x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
31 M
libreoffice-core x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
247 M
libreoffice-draw x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
65 k
libreoffice-emailmerge x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
54 k
libreoffice-graphicfilter x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
1.5 M
libreoffice-gtk2 x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
674 k
libreoffice-gtk3 x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
775 k
libreoffice-help-en x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
24 M
libreoffice-impress x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
2.1 M
libreoffice-langpack-en x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
187 k
libreoffice-math x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
1.7 M
libreoffice-ogltrans x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
290 k
libreoffice-pdfimport x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
598 k
libreoffice-pyuno x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
1.5 M
libreoffice-writer x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
16 M
libreoffice-x11 x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
706 k
libreoffice-xsltfilter x86_64 1:6.0.6.2-1.fc28 @updates
4.3 M
Downgrading:
enchant x86_64 1:1.6.0-18.fc27 fedora27
61 k
enchant-devel x86_64 1:1.6.0-18.fc27 fedora27
17 k
enchant2 x86_64 2.2.3-4.fc27 updates27
58 k
hunspell x86_64 1.5.4-4.fc27 fedora27
328 k
hunspell-devel x86_64 1.5.4-4.fc27 fedora27
98 k
kf5-sonnet-core x86_64 5.48.0-2.fc27 updates27
167 k
kf5-sonnet-ui x86_64 5.48.0-2.fc27 updates27
152 k
link-grammar x86_64 5.5.1-4.fc27 updates27
2.1 M
lokalize x86_64 17.12.1-1.fc27 updates27
2.6 M
scribus x86_64 1.4.6-9.fc27 fedora27
21 M
thunderbird x86_64 52.9.1-1.fc27 updates27
79 M
Transaction Summary
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Remove 18 Packages
Downgrade 11 Packages
Total download size: 106 M
Also, thunderbird seems to be working fine for me on F28, but I
don't
use any extensions.
Seems to die frequently with errors like, "Process 20905 (thunderbird)
crashed in g_wakeup_new()". External editor extension does not work. I
strongly dislike any program that thinks I should use their own editor
and learn still another way to edit things.
--
Dave Close