On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 19:28 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
At 18:17:57 on Friday Friday 14 May 2010, Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> wrote:
Am 14.05.2010 17:11, schrieb Stan Goodman:
At 13:31:43 on Friday Friday 14 May 2010, Francesco Teodori
<francesco.teodori@gmail.com> wrote:
This is the repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2/ Regards, Francesco
I added that repo, and tried again to update Firefox, but found that the only update offered was v3.5.9, so I installed that.
Then, after Felix pointed out the page at <http://en.opensuse.org/Firefox>, I visited it and ran the series of zypper commands to install "the newest version". I've listed the result in another message just sent to this thread, but in short, the 3.5.9 was all this repo has to offer.
I had been to that page before, but was unable to locate it today. Previoiusly I had used it to install v3.6.3 on an 11.1 machine. Since that worked, I conclude that the 11.2 repo just doesn't have the newest version.
It has 3.6.3. I'm not a good supporter for the package manager though but something is wrong if you don't get 3.6.3 installed. Probably zypper doesn't want to do a vendor change. Could you try yast2 and choose the 3.6.3 version?
I did that first. I would certainly choose 3.6.3 if it ware offered, but it isn't. What the box in the lower right corner of the Software Manager window says is:
***** Installed: 3.5.9-0.1.1 (x86_64) Remove
Available: 3.5.9-0.1.1 (x86_64) openSUSE-11.2-Update *****
But now I noticed that the second part of the above is an inverted caret to the right which I haad overlooked before. This is my second day in 11.2, and apparently I haven't not yet internalized all the curiosities of the new display. Pulling down what I now understand is a list box, I see that there are two additional entries:
3.6.3-1.2 (x86_64) Mozilla and
3.6.3-1.2 (x86_64) mozilla
I can only guess why one should pick the capitalized one over the one with only lower case, but that is what I will do.
Installation was complete, after forcing a vendor change.
So I could have avoided wasting much of a day, had I been more observant. I apologize; thanks to everyone for there help.
Wolfgang
-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
Hi Stan, I think I had the same problem on one of my computers when I tried to update to the latest firefox. It got stuck at 3.5.9, that was all it would update to even though I had the mozilla repository installed. I use yast instead of zypper, so I went to package management in yast and typed in firefox in the search box. It showed 3.5.9 as the installed version. I then selected the tab for versions, and found that 3.5.9 was at the top of the list. Looking down the list of available versions of firefox, I found that 3.6.x was available and I selected it and hit install. Yast found a dependency that was required for the new version, and I had to select a change of vendor for that dependency. When I did that, 3.6.x installed. The problem was the dependency and yast would only solve for the earlier version until I changed the source for the dependency. Hope this fixes the problem. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org