[CentOS] package internet-browser?
Kay Schenk
kay.schenk at gmail.com
Wed May 3 20:17:26 UTC 2017
On 05/03/2017 08:15 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
> 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
HA! I did do "yum info internet-browser" but did not use the groupinfo
option.
So thanks. Mystery solved!
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