[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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