Apparently the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird no longer include appdata. Is there anyway to turn off this check? FIrefox and Thunderbird opperate fine and there is no correct way to respond to YAST error message.
With openSUSE 13.1 KDE 32-bit, Firefox 35.0-1.1 installed from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_13.1/ contains the file /usr/share/appdata/firefox.appdata.xml
What version are you trying to install, and from where?
Howard
They do. But the package dependencies are apparently wrong, i.e. the packages do not specify that they provide the appdata:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905558
(those packages have autogeneration of the dependencies turned off, and that triggers this problem)
Is there anyway to turn off this check?
Turn off the option “Autocheck” in YaST’s “Dependencies” menu.
Btw, even if the appdata was missing, this would not affect the applications/packages themselves. Appdata is just some additional information about the packages/applications, which is actually only used/shown by gnome-software at the moment AFAIK.
I reinstalled OpenSUSE and this problem disappeared. Thanks for the information.
Try to run " zypper verify " to make sure the problem is no longer there. I’m trying too to figure out what to do. I could remove Firefox and use SeaMonkey. My thinking is if there is really a cyber war using firefox would be dangerous as probably targeted would be internet explorer and firefox the two most widely used browsers. I’m still searching for answeres on this.
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