On Friday 23 March 2007 5:35:58 pm Ed Greshko wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >>> In which case you set up yum to *only* take firefox from Remi's repo, > >>> and nothing else. Problem solved. > >> > >> Right, sure, yes.....explain that to the clueless. > > > > su - > > rpm -Uvh \ > > http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6.i386/remi-release-1-2.fc6.remi.noarch > >.rpm head -n 7 /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo >/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new > > sed -i -e 's/enabled=[01]/enabled=1/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new > > echo 'includepkgs=firefox devhelp epiphany galeon > > gnome-python2-gtkmozembed '\ 'gtkmozembedmm liferea yelp' > > >>/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new > > tail -n +8 /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo >>/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new > > echo 'includepkgs=firefox devhelp epiphany galeon > > gnome-python2-gtkmozembed '\ 'gtkmozembedmm liferea yelp' > > >>/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new > > mv -f /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo.new /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo > > > > This should be ready for copy&paste. :-) What this does: > > * installs remi-release > > * copies the [remi] (not [remi-test]) part of remi.repo to remi.repo.new > > * enables the repo > > * adds the includepkgs directive > > * appends the info for [remi-test], disabled by default > > * adds the includepkgs directive there too > > * moves the result back to remi.repo > > Wow....that will *really* help the clueless. > > You are joking, right? I think he was... Anyway, its really no where need as complicated as that. All I did was > rpm -Uvh http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/fc6.i386/remi-release-1-2.fc6.remi.noarch > yum upgrade firefox --enablerepo=remi and it runs fine. I didn't update the other apps (epiphany galeon etc.) as I don't use them (or gnome in fact). Firefox 2 seems just fine without those updates.... If you do you might have to I guess ? Chris
