Hello Phil,

On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 22:55:30 +0000 Phil Perry pperry@elrepo.org wrote:

On 07/12/2019 22:42, wwp wrote:

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Hello,

I've been stuck for a while with an old version of firefox, installed from local .rpm (I know.. I should have downgraded using yum, instead) and added a exclude=firefox to the relevant .repo file. I did that after a yum-update has brought firefox 52+, and all add-ons were deprecated because of their new add-on scheme.

Today that all the add-ons I need are available, I've tried upgrading to the latest Firefox version available from the updates repo.. I removed the exclude line in .repo file, but `yum update` didn't bring any firefox version at all: "No packages marked for update". I've struggled a bit, no way to get firefox installed using yum. See..

$ rpm -q firefox firefox-52.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64

$ yum info firefox Installed Packages Name : firefox Arch : x86_64 Version : 52.8.0 Release : 1.el7.centos Size : 149 M Repo : installed From repo : /firefox-52.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 [snip]

$ yum search firefox firefox.x86_64 : Mozilla Firefox Web browser

$ yum update firefox No packages marked for update

$ rpm -q firefox firefox-52.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64

$ rpm -e firefox

$ rpm -q firefox package firefox is not installed

$ yum install firefox No package firefox available.

Even: $ yum localinstall firefox-68.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm Examining firefox-68.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm: firefox-68.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 Nothing to do

I still can install it using `rpm -i`, but I'm afraid yum-updates will not bring anything later.

What an I doing wrong?

Try 'yum clean all' and then try again - any good?

Didn't help.

If not, what about:

yum --disableexcludes=all install firefox

I'm guessing it's still excluded somewhere even though you think you've removed the exclude.

Good guess, that one did help. Finally, thanks to your suggestion, I've found that it was an exclude line in /etc/yum.conf, PEBCAK.

Many thanks, Phil!

Regards,