Status of Thunderbird in Rocky Linux?

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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Hi,

Some time ago I installed Thunderbird from Rocky’s plus repository, since it supported GPG, contrary to the “official” package. Now when I try to dnf update I get this:

Error: 
 Problem: cannot install both thunderbird-102.12.0-1.el8_8.x86_64 and thunderbird-102.5.0-2.el8_7.plus.x86_64
  - package thunderbird-librnp-rnp-102.5.0-2.el8_7.plus.x86_64 requires thunderbird(x86-64) = 102.5.0-2.el8_7.plus, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package thunderbird-102.5.0-2.el8_7.plus.x86_64
  - problem with installed package thunderbird-librnp-rnp-102.5.0-2.el8_7.plus.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

For some time I’ve been using the suggested --nobest option, but after a while I thought I’d rather ask about the status of this package.

Cheers,

Niki

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thunderbird in plus is longer available as pgp support is now built in to the normal package.

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Thanks very much for the (very fast) answer.

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Thanks! for that info. :+1: I was just about to ask about TB.plus being very old.

But, before I go on. Using --allowerasing… Never used that one before.

Will that upgrade/replace my current TB.plus? …or will it just erase it, and I’ll end up with like a new clean install (ie. losing everything I had)? (I’ll backup my ~/.thunderbird folder first, of course)

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You should review the transaction on what’s happening. The upgrade is supposed to be straightforward. Regardless of how you upgrade the package(s), it does not touch anything in your home directory.

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Thanks! :+1: Ok, so it’ll act like a normal upgrade then? I was looking at the swap, but that’s basically the same thing - like the last example there.

Would it be best to install the new one: dnf --allowerasing install pkg …or just add it to my current upgrade: dnf --allowerasing up pkg? Seen both examples. Maybe the result is the same?