Tired of updating Thunderbird
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Sep 10 13:36:22 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:41 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 16:25 -0400, James McManus wrote:
> > Both yum and my package manager tell me I need to update:
> >
> > thunderbird.x86_64 2.0.0.16-1.fc9
> > updates
> >
> > When I update, the package is successfully downloaded and installed,
> > but both yum and the package manager tell me I still need to update
> > it. This has happened ever since I moved to Fedora core 9. I have
> > tried various yum commands, such as "clean" to try and resolve this
> > problem, but have not had success. Any ideas why this is occurring?
> ----
> if you check the installation notes, they clearly state that updating
> thunderbird will fail and that what you need to do is yum remove
> thunderbird and then yum install thunderbird
>
> Craig
>
That sounds like a good reason not to use thunderbird.
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