On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Greg Woods <woods(a)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.
--Greg