On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:46:30 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Is there hope?? I do see a couple of threads on
> gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general about firefox and about dependencies
> that mention what seems essentially the same trouble; but they only
> confuse me the more, alas!
gecko-libs is supplied by firefox. The easiest way to do updates until
the gecko-libs dependencies are fixed is to simply exclude firefox from
the update request via "--exclude=firefox*". Once the new firefox and
gecko-libs is out (version 2.0.0.9?), then things should get better.
Any idea when that might be? I do still have Galeon on another
machine; it might be less trouble to get along with that than straighten
out firefox. (I like mozilla apps, but find their web forums confusing.)
In your case, if you installed FireFox 2.0.0.8 (the broken one),
then
you really need to uninstall it, go find the 2.0.0.5 version somewhere
and install it. Then your dependencies should be fine.
Well, I will if I have to. But merely yum removing followed by
yum installing didn't do it; shouldn't somebody patrolling repos have
caught a broken major app? Or won't somebody, if I just wait?
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