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Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'livna' from 'http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried, disabling.
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:15:27 ago on Sun Sep 27 17:34:17 2015.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
firefox x86_64 41.0-4.fc22 updates 72 M
Transaction Summary
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Nothing to do.
Complete!
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'livna' from 'http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried, disabling.
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:15:27 ago on Sun Sep 27 17:34:17 2015.
Dependencies resolved.
==================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
==================================================================================
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
firefox x86_64 41.0-4.fc22 updates 72 M
Transaction Summary
==================================================================================
Nothing to do.
Complete!
Can I do something to fix these errors?
You don't tell us what you did to get that repo into your system in the first place, so what do you think we'll be able to tell you? We can't guess.
Going to their base page, they have VERY clear instructions on how to configure their repository..did you follow them? http://rpm.livna.org/
Looking at the Livna repo, it looks like their highest version is Fedora 21, hence the error message. Not sure why Firefox isn't updating for you. However, you might try:
Thanks that helps. Seems I haven't read the livna page thoroughly...
I installed firefox manually because it wasn't in the repolist yet.
Without removing the old version. That could have produced a conflict?
Is it better to wait for the official repolist updates? If done right
is there any harm in doing a manual update?
Sorry for such dumb questions but I'm completely new to linuxworld
When you say you installed Firefox manually, did you install the Fedora 22 rpm or the tar.bz2 file from Mozilla? If the latter (or if you installed, rather than upgraded the rpm), it could be problematic, but I don't think it would lead to the results you got from dnf.
My advice to you as a new Linux user is to stick with the official repositories unless there's a compelling reason to do otherwise. With respect to Fedora, one compelling reason is to obtain certain potentially patent-encumbered or non-free software, and the recommended source for that is rpmfusion. If you want flash, go to the Adobe site, and either grab the flash-plugin rpm and install it manually, or, add the adobe repository so that you can update via dnf.
I installed Firefox rather than upgrading... however I don't know if dnf is broken.
I recently added
Code:
[thanquol@Base-Camp Documents]$ dnf info mail-notification
Last metadata expiration check performed 13:04:12 ago on Wed Sep 30 03:02:59 2015.
Installed Packages
Name : mail-notification
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 0
Version : 5.4
Release : 83.git.eab5c13.fc22
Size : 1.3 M
Repo : @System
From repo : fedora
Summary : Status icon that informs you if you have new mail
URL : http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/
License : GPLv3+
Description : Mail Notification is a status icon (aka tray icon) that informs you
: if you have new mail. It works with system trays implementing the
: freedesktop.org System Tray Specification, such as the GNOME Panel
: Notification Area, the Xfce Notification Area and the KDE System
: Tray
but it doesn't seem to work properly so I wanted to uninstall the package again with
Code:
[thanquol@Base-Camp Documents]$ sudo dnf remove mail-notification
[sudo] password for thanquol:
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
==================================================================================
Removing:
ORBit2 x86_64 2.14.19-13.fc22 @System 597 k
gamin x86_64 0.1.10-17.fc22 @System 414 k
gnome-vfs2 x86_64 2.24.4-18.fc22 @System 1.1 M
gnome-vfs2-common noarch 2.24.4-18.fc22 @System 3.3 M
libIDL x86_64 0.8.14-9.fc22 @System 214 k
libbonobo x86_64 2.32.1-8.fc22 @System 2.0 M
libgnome x86_64 2.32.1-9.fc22 @System 4.5 M
mail-notification x86_64 5.4-83.git.eab5c13.fc22 @System 1.3 M
rarian x86_64 0.8.1-12.fc22 @System 341 k
rarian-compat x86_64 0.8.1-12.fc22 @System 256 k
Transaction Summary
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Remove 10 Packages
Installed size: 14 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Operation aborted.
As far as I can recall the packages that came with mail-notification are
Code:
mail-notification x86_64 5.4-83.git.eab5c13.fc22 @System 1.3 M
rarian x86_64 0.8.1-12.fc22 @System 341 k
rarian-compat x86_64 0.8.1-12.fc22 @System 256 k
Why does dnf want to remove 10 packages? I looked up some of these packages with dnf info
and they seem to be pretty important to run GNOME for instance libgnome. Have I messed something up?
How can I remove mail-notification or firefox manually and if needed repair dnf?
I'm trying to stick to the official repos but there is freeware without being added
to them I need and/or like. I noticed that Redhat/Fedora is pretty strict regarding the freeware licences
and I'm not Perhaps I should change the distro on the long run but I want to get that machine
running first.. and get used to deal with linux
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