Firefox upgrade

Ian Burrell ianburrell at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 17:05:06 UTC 2006


Henk Altena <skipper <at> zinix.nl> writes:
> 
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> >
> > Yum should definitely have made this all work right, but apparently not. Do
> > you have the newest nss package installed?
> >   
> I did un upgrade of the nss packages and then an upgrade of firefox (NOT 
> deleted the old version) and guess what: IT WORKED.
>

The latest firefox needs the latest version of nss.  This dependency isn't
stated by the RPM so yum couldn't resolve it or print a warning.

Yum would have done the right thing is you did "yum update" and upgraded
everything that could have been upgraded.

 - Ian





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