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How to deal with outdated packages on the fedora repository (rpm)?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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

I rebased to rawhide for now where firefox is on 120

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks! I removed firefox in favour of the flatpak

Universal blue inages are really great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.