[CentOS] package internet-browser?

Kay Schenk kay.schenk at gmail.com
Wed May 3 14:52:37 UTC 2017



On 05/02/2017 09:59 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Kay Schenk wrote:
>> On 05/01/2017 06:10 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>> On May 1, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What can anyone tell me about package internet-browser?
>>>>
>>>> Through the gnome package app, there seems to be NO meta info????
>>>
>>> I can’t find any packages called 'internet-browser’ for CentOS6 or 7, in
>>> either the base repos or EPEL. pkgs.org doesn’t know about it either.
>>>
>>> Do you have any extra repositories added?
>>
>> Yes, but...this ONLY shows up through the gnome package kit app --
>> gpk-application. It does NPT show up either through the yum repos or
>> rpm. Is it some kind of system alias? It's 128.9 MB.
>>
>> Yesterday, when I was having so much trouble with the latest FF 52, I
>> uninstalled internet-browser thing which also uninstalled FF 52. OK, all
>> good. I cleared my yum cache, then re-installed FF 45. This item came
>> back through gpk-application. Rather confused at this point.
>>
>> I'm on CentOS 6.9, 32 bit.
>>
> Silly thought: if you *have* that package installed, and want to upgrade
> it... what repo does rpm -qi internet-browser tell you it's from.

See my previous reply -- it DOES not show up in an rpm query. I am not 
using konqueror. I will try to track this down further. It MUST be an 
alias that's set up in gnome.


>
> I don't suppose there's any chance that it could be the konqueror browswer?
>
>         mark
>
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