c/fedora · by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml · 2y

How to deal with outdated packages on the fedora repository (rpm)?

I'm on fedora Silverblue and just saw that firefox is still on 118 whereas 120 is about to be released.

I found https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firefox which says that on fedora 39 firefox is on 119 yet it isn't on my machine.

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Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (4 replies)

https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox

GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Somehow there's a .desktop file clash which I can't resolve

I rebased to rawhide for now where firefox is on 120

Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

There's a command to hide the Silverblue/RPM of Firefox & change your default browser to the Flatpak’d Firefox in GNOME settings:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/applications/

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop /usr/local/share/applications/

sudo sed -i "2a\\NotShowIn=GNOME;KDE" /usr/local/share/applications/firefox.desktop

sudo update-desktop-database /usr/local/share/applications/

Or can remove Firefox and Firefox Language Packs as a custom layer:

rpm-ostree override remove firefox-langpacks firefox Universal Blue images remove it from the image entirely and has FF flatpak out of box.

GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Thanks! I removed firefox in favour of the flatpak

Universal blue inages are really great

Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

Yeah, I removed Firefox from the layers as well and use it via flatpak. Somehow that felt appropriate from a security perspective, to have it sandboxed.

mintycactus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Doesn't work.

alt@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Do you get like an error or something?

GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

No, just nothing to update.