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meckchat

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Registered: 2024-02-19

Posts: 8

[SOLVED] What's the recommendation with updating Firefox?

Hello,

I have the firefox package installed through pacman, but it seems that it is an old version (127.0.2), whereas the package page  says it should now provides the current version (136.0-1):

% pacman -Qi firefox
Name            : firefox
Version         : 127.0.2-1
Description     : Fast, Private & Safe Web Browser
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Licenses        : MPL-2.0
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : alsa-lib  at-spi2-core  bash  cairo  dbus  ffmpeg  fontconfig  freetype2  gcc-libs  gdk-pixbuf2
                  glib2  glibc  gtk3  hicolor-icon-theme  libpulse  libx11  libxcb  libxcomposite  libxdamage
                  libxext  libxfixes  libxrandr  libxss  libxt  mime-types  nspr  nss  pango  ttf-font
Optional Deps   : hunspell-en_US: Spell checking, American English
                  libnotify: Notification integration [installed]
                  networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks [installed]
                  speech-dispatcher: Text-to-Speech
                  xdg-desktop-portal: Screensharing with Wayland [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 240.87 MiB
Packager        : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Mon 24 Jun 2024 06:15:08 PM PDT
Install Date    : Tue 09 Jul 2024 01:16:45 PM PDT
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

My system is up-to-date: 'pacman -Syu' returns 'there is nothing to do'. I must be missing something elementary, but what would be the way to get the latest version of firefox?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by meckchat (2025-03-11 22:57:36)

frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

Posts: 1,622

Re: [SOLVED] What's the recommendation with updating Firefox?

Maybe you're using a bad mirror, try another one?

mountaintrek

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Registered: 2024-02-01

Posts: 60

Re: [SOLVED] What's the recommendation with updating Firefox?

That would be my first guess too, the mirror being used.

Some other steps that might help:

• Check the pacman log for firefox and any errors

  less /var/log/pacman.log

• Check for firefox in your sync database.  NOTE: There is the Sync database (all metadata from repo [-S])  and Local database (locally installed packages [-Q])

   pacman --verbose -Ss firefox

• Check cached version

  find /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ -iname '*firefox*'

• Run checkupdates. It is in package, pacman-contrib. It will create a temporary sync database in /tmp/checkup-db-$UID

  checkupdates

• Check the temporary sync database explicitly

  pacman --verbose -Si firefox --dbpath=/tmp/checkup-db-$UID

• Double the '-y' on the upgrade. This will update the metadata in the Sync database whether it is updated or not.

Links:

• Reflector

• Mirrors

Last edited by mountaintrek (2025-03-08 00:49:15)

sorkaud

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Registered: 2015-07-15

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] What's the recommendation with updating Firefox?

I did update through pacman quite while ago and it is 133.0

I checked it on the firefox app -> option -> Help -> about firefox.

meckchat

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Registered: 2024-02-19

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] What's the recommendation with updating Firefox?

Hi,

Thank you for your answers. You were right, my mirror list was obsolete. After following the wiki to update the mirrors, I was able to upgrade to the latest version of firefox (and many more packages were actually in need of an upgrade).

Thanks again!