[CentOS] package internet-browser?

Wed May 3 20:17:26 UTC 2017
Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com>


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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