Solus doesn't update Firefox

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Hi, I ran sudo eopkg up 10 minutes ago, then read an article saying that firefox 84 had been released. I checked my firefox version and I was stuck on 81, so I ran sudo eopkg install firefox and it began downloading version 84.

What is going on? Why didn't a normal update install the latest firefox? Now I wonder which other bits of software might not be getting updated via eopkg..

Thanks for any help.

kaktuspalme

Was the sudo eopkg up successful? What's the output if you run "sudo eopkg up" ?

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kaktuspalme Yes, it was successful, and updated a few packages. I have followed these instructions and it has helped somewhat but thunderbird is still behind a few versions.

Instructions I followed:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/eopkg/* sudo eopkg ar Solus https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/eopkg-index.xml.xz sudo eopkg rdb sudo eopkg ur sudo eopkg up

From: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/1617-issue-with-eopkg-upgrade-update-repo/12

Thunderbird is still behind a few versions...

darknetmatrix

Here on today's update firefox 84 came in normally

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I continued following the instructions in the thread linked above, and the command

# Export all installed packages to a text file in one line
eopkg li | cut -d " " -f 1 | tr '\n' ' ' > ~/InstalledPackages

does not seem to export ALL my installed packages. Here are the contents of the file:

aa-lsm-hook acl attr audit baselayout bash bash-completion bc bzip2 ca-certs clr-boot-manager comar comar-api coreutils cpio cryptsetup curl db5 dbus dbus-glib disktype e2fsprogs expat file findutils gawk gettext glib2 glibc gmp gobject-introspection gpm grep gzip hwdata inetutils inotify-tools isl iso-codes jansson json-c kerberos kernel-glue kmod less libcap2 libelf libffi libgcc libgcrypt libgomp libgpg-error libgudev libgusb libnettle libnspr libnss libpcre libpipeline libssh2 libstdc++ libusb libxml2 libxslt linux-driver-management lvm2 lz4 lzip mpc mpfr ncurses nghttp2 openssl openssl-11 pam piksemel pisi polkit popt procps-ng psmisc python python-dbus python-magic python-pycurl python-pyliblzma python-urlgrabber qol-assist readline sed shadow sharutils sqlite3 sudo systemd tar time tzdata unzip usbutils usysconf util-linux which wireless-regdb xz zip zlib

Note that none of my software is in that list. Firefox isn't there, neither is thunderbird, nor libreoffice etc etc..

Therefore, the rest of the instructions on that page (specifically this link ) don't work.

JoshStrobl

20pesos That's because you nuked your eopkg contents. It has no idea what you have installed anymore.

Only way to fix that is a re-install.

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JoshStrobl Thanks. Any idea how I may have done so?

henkesteen

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Maybe this line right here?

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/eopkg/*

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henkesteen Gotcha. I mean looking back now it seems obvious, but I was just following instructions on the forum! And from Justin "Batman" no less! Perhaps it serves me right for following instructions blindly, but as a noob, sometimes that's just what you have to do. Can't understand every command. I knew I was deleting something, but assumed it was something trivial like cache or similar.

If I backup my /home/ and reinstall, most of my settings will be transferred to my new install, right? Any links to a good backup tutorial in the forums?

Cheers. Red faces all around 😅

henkesteen

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Yeah, everyone is learning new stuff from time to time =)
No idea about the home folder backup + reinstall though.

Try to search for it in the "Search Forum"-search. If you don't find anything, I hope someone else can help you with that stuff.

All the best!

kaktuspalme

20pesos Yes if you backup your home folder and you changed nothing in /etc after installing all the packages you need everything should be like it was before.
For that matter I would just use tar and create a tar file from the whole /home folder. You need to include the file attributes and then you should be fine.