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#1

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Hi, why if I don’t have Thunderbird installed openSUSE 11.4 insist to
install updates for it?


[vampird@Shinobu]:~$ zypper lp
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

Repository                       | Name               | Version |
Category | Status
-
---------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+-------
Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | MozillaThunderbird | 4149    |
security | needed
[vampird@Shinobu]:~$

VampirD
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#2

On 03/30/2011 11:52 AM, VampirD wrote:

> Hi, why if I don’t have Thunderbird installed openSUSE 11.4 insist to
> install updates for it?

right click on the update (in YaST > Online Update) and mark it to
never update…

the bigger question of course is: Why would it try to update something
you don’t have?

i do not know the answer to that one…but, i reckon the reason is
spelled B-U-G, begin here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports

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#3

Run a


rpm -qa  | grep -i  thunderbird 
###   or 
zypper search  mozilla 


to see if Thunderbird and which Mozilla components are installed