Hi
I was going to update using zypper as i have lots of updates. When zypper showed the summary of what it was going to do
I noted:
The following application is going to be REMOVED:
"Firefox Web Browser"
Furthermore, i did not see where an new Firefox Web Browser was going to be installed.
Am I going to have firefox if I accept the upgade?
Just want to be sure, as it will probabley be very difficult to fix it.(for me)
Thank you
Please repeat the command and post complete output
here is the info you asked for
linux-ejoz:# zypper up
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
The following 7 package updates will NOT be installed:
flash-player freshplayerplugin virtualbox virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-5.0.26_k3.16.7_42-51.1 virtualbox-guest-tools
virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-5.0.26_k3.16.7_42-51.1 virtualbox-qt
The following 10 NEW packages are going to be installed:
kernel-default-devel-3.16.7-42.1 kernel-desktop-3.16.7-42.1 kernel-desktop-devel-3.16.7-42.1 kernel-devel-3.16.7-42.1
kernel-source-3.16.7-42.1 kernel-syms-3.16.7-42.1 kernel-xen-devel-3.16.7-42.1 libx265-87
virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-5.0.20_k3.16.7_42-48.5 virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-5.0.20_k3.16.7_42-48.5
The following application is going to be REMOVED:
"Firefox Web Browser"
The following 91 packages are going to be upgraded:
amarok chromium chromium-desktop-kde chromium-ffmpeg chromium-pepper-flash curl dracut ffmpeg-3.0 flash-player
flash-player-kde4 gd gdk-pixbuf-devel gdk-pixbuf-lang gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-32bit
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-orig-addon k3b k3b-codecs k3b-lang kernel-macros libavcodec56
libavcodec57 libavdevice56 libavdevice57 libavfilter5 libavfilter6 libavformat56 libavformat57 libavresample2
libavresample3 libavutil54 libavutil55 libcurl4 libdvdnav4 libfreebl3 libfreebl3-32bit libgcrypt20 libgcrypt20-32bit
libgd3 libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0 libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0-32bit libgstbasecamerabinsrc-0_10-23 libgstbasevideo-0_10-23
libgstcodecparsers-0_10-23 libgstphotography-0_10-23 libgstsignalprocessor-0_10-23 libgstvdp-0_10-23
libNetworkManagerQt1 libopencv3_1 libpostproc53 libpostproc54 libpython3_4m1_0 libsoftokn3 libsoftokn3-32bit
libswresample1 libswresample2 libswscale3 libswscale4 libtiff5 libtiff5-32bit libvlc5 libvlccore8 libx264-148 libz1
libz1-32bit lsof MozillaFirefox mozilla-nss mozilla-nss-32bit mozilla-nss-certs mozilla-nss-certs-32bit
mozilla-nss-tools MozillaThunderbird mpv python3 python3-base smplayer smplayer-lang typelib-1_0-GdkPixbuf-2_0
virtualbox virtualbox-guest-tools virtualbox-qt vlc vlc-codecs vlc-noX vlc-qt wget x264 youtube-dl zlib-devel
91 packages to upgrade, 10 new.
Overall download size: 363.7 MiB. Already cached: 0 B After the operation, additional 654.0 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y):
Thank you
… and the upgrade installed, note the large red bold I added.
you should also post your repo list
zypper lr -d
afaik the update repo uses delta rpm’s applied to the original from oss (it makes for a much smaller download) applying delta’s does not require a removal but if you had Firefox from another repo (like the Mozilla repo) the delta could not be applied so a removal and a full download would be required, one of the better reasons to stay on the oss repo and not add too many repo’s is the delta rpm’s used, an update from any 3rd party repo downloads the entire package