[CentOS] package internet-browser?

John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Wed May 3 15:15:38 UTC 2017


On Wed, 3 May 2017, Kay Schenk wrote:

> 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?

Surely this isn't anything complicated?

# yum groupinfo internet-browser
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security, versionlock
Setting up Group Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

Group: Internet Browser
  Description: Firefox web browser
  Default Packages:
    firefox
    nspluginwrapper
    totem-mozplugin

jh


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