how to stop Firefox updating?

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jeepster
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how to stop Firefox updating?

Post by jeepster » 2020/10/02 10:47:04

Firefox updated to version 78 which has problems. I yum downgrade firefox and got version 68, much better.
I added this line to yum.conf:
installonly=firefox-68.12.0-1

In Firefox config app.update.auto is false

But Firefox updated to version 78 later in the day.

tunk
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Re: how to stop Firefox updating?

Post by tunk » 2020/10/02 11:13:38

You could do a web search with these keywords:
yum blacklist package

Edit: I'm sure you know that C6 updates will end in few weeks time?

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Re: how to stop Firefox updating?

Post by KernelOops » 2020/10/02 13:01:48

You need to exclude it. Edit your /etc/yum.conf and add something like:

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exclude=firefox
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Re: how to stop Firefox updating?

Post by TrevorH » 2020/10/03 15:24:13

installonly= is the wrong parameter to use for this, use exclude=
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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