Firefox 42 being withheld from today's update

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I’m much given to wondering why Firefox is being held back.
I trust there is enough information from my humble rig to help me out with a feasible explanation.

# zypper up
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


The following 6 package updates will NOT be installed:
  MozillaFirefox MozillaFirefox-translations-common dragonplayer kgpg konsole konsole-part

zypper if MozillaFirefox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package MozillaFirefox:
---------------------------------------
Repository: openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update
Name: MozillaFirefox
Version: 42.0-3.5
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: out-of-date (version 41.0.2-1.2 installed)
Installed Size: 96.0 MiB
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Description: 
  Mozilla Firefox is a standalone web browser, designed for standards
  compliance and performance.  Its functionality can be enhanced via a
  plethora of extensions.



# zypper lr -d
# | Alias               | Name                              | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                | Service
--+---------------------+-----------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | nvidia              | nvidia                            | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.1/                      |        
2 | packman             | packman                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |        
3 | repo-non-oss        | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Non-Oss        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/  |        
4 | repo-oss            | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Oss            | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/      |        
5 | repo-update         | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/oss/                 |        
6 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Non-Oss | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/             |

The repos look all right don’t they?
Best wishes,

Hugh

2

Hi
Was this a fresh install from the released DVD?

Try just updating Firefox and it should indicate what it’s doing…


zypper up MozillaFirefox

Both my leap systems here updated fine… maybe even try a zupper dup may show more info…

3

Hello Malcolm,

A fresh install? Installed from dvd a couple of weeks ago. Oh I know what, do you mean have I upgraded from 13.1 to 13.2 to Leap? No.

A strange thing is happening now with your suggestion to use zypper up MozillaFirefox:

# zypper up MozillaFirefox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 6 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  gstreamer-fluendo-mp3 java-1_7_0-openjdk java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless java-1_7_0-openjdk-plugin lcms2 timezone-java

The following 2 packages are going to be upgraded:
  MozillaFirefox MozillaFirefox-translations-common

2 packages to upgrade, 6 new.
Overall download size: 91.8 MiB. Already cached: 1.9 MiB. After the operation, additional 85.3 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y):

I mean to say - new packages? These were not mentioned during todays zypper ref, zypper lu and finally zypper up.

Very strange,

Thanks,

Hugh

4

I can think of two reasons. Vendor change (this is known to happen in the past with updates, at least in TW) and optional update. As explicit installation works, I tend to think this update is marked as optional.

5

and after accepting the updates:

In cache gstreamer-fluendo-mp3-21-1.2.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                         (1/8), 293.7 KiB (  1.5 MiB unpacked)
In cache timezone-java-2015g-0.3.1.noarch.rpm                                                                                                                                            (2/8), 111.7 KiB (255.5 KiB unpacked)
In cache lcms2-2.7-1.1.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                        (3/8),  44.0 KiB (142.1 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving package MozillaFirefox-42.0-3.5.x86_64                                                                                                                                        (4/8),  40.4 MiB ( 96.0 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: MozillaFirefox-42.0-3.5.x86_64.rpm ...........................................................................................................................................................[done (912.6 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless-1.7.0.91-22.1.x86_64                                                                                                                      (5/8),  42.2 MiB ( 79.1 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless-1.7.0.91-22.1.x86_64.rpm ...........................................................................................................................................[done (1.0 MiB/s)]
Retrieving package MozillaFirefox-translations-common-42.0-3.5.x86_64                                                                                                                    (6/8),   8.9 MiB ( 48.1 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving delta: ./x86_64/MozillaFirefox-translations-common-41.0.2_42.0-1.2_3.5.x86_64.drpm, 1.4 MiB
Retrieving: MozillaFirefox-translations-common-41.0.2_42.0-1.2_3.5.x86_64.drpm ...........................................................................................................................[done (860.0 KiB/s)]
Applying delta: ./MozillaFirefox-translations-common-41.0.2_42.0-1.2_3.5.x86_64.drpm ...................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving package java-1_7_0-openjdk-1.7.0.91-22.1.x86_64                                                                                                                               (7/8), 330.6 KiB (460.4 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: java-1_7_0-openjdk-1.7.0.91-22.1.x86_64.rpm ..................................................................................................................................................[done (290.0 KiB/s)]
In cache java-1_7_0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.1-1.2.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                  (8/8),   1.5 MiB (  2.0 MiB unpacked)
Checking for file conflicts: ...........................................................................................................................................................................................[done]
(1/8) Installing: gstreamer-fluendo-mp3-21-1.2 .........................................................................................................................................................................[done]
(2/8) Installing: timezone-java-2015g-0.3.1 ............................................................................................................................................................................[done]
(3/8) Installing: lcms2-2.7-1.1 ........................................................................................................................................................................................[done]
(4/8) Installing: MozillaFirefox-42.0-3.5 ..............................................................................................................................................................................[done]
Additional rpm output:
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'


(5/8) Installing: java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless-1.7.0.91-22.1 ............................................................................................................................................................[done]
Additional rpm output:                                                                                                                                                                                                        
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk to provide /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.7.0 (jre_1.7.0) in auto mode                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
(6/8) Installing: MozillaFirefox-translations-common-42.0-3.5 ..........................................................................................................................................................[done]
(7/8) Installing: java-1_7_0-openjdk-1.7.0.91-22.1 .....................................................................................................................................................................[done]
(8/8) Installing: java-1_7_0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.1-1.2 ..................................................................................................................................................................[done]
Additional rpm output:                                                                                                                                                                                                        
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib64/java-1_8_0-openjdk-plugin/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so because link group javaplugin is broken

I note the first 3 rpms are already in cache almost as if they were waiting from a previous update that was interrupted or something.

Except…I haven’t had any error ridden updates they all fly through with no erroneous final outputs in sight.

Now I have Firefox 42. Firefox 43 be here soon I expect.

Hugh

6

I think that’s the way that the Gnome update applet works. It downloads updates in the background, but doesn’t install them until you say so.

As for the new packages – those are actually part of a standard install, except that they are not on the install DVD. So they are intended to be installed later, such as when you do updates or install something from the repos.

However, I’m not sure why Firefox did not update initially. I did not run into that problem here.