On 08/15/15 11:39, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > How do I download a thunderbird rpm for Fedora 22? I'm sure Mozilla will > provide one. dnf install thunderbird will do it but that does not give > me an rpm I can use for another install. > > Normally this is not a problem but in messing with thunderbird I have > been forced to dnf install a copy each time I want to start over which > seems a waste. especially when my Viasat usage is limited to an > allocated amount each month ... > mozilla supplies 'generic' *.tar.bz2 installation files that install in /opt. i have never used such, only read about them. i may be wrong, but i believe they need tweaking. firefox-40.0.2.tar.bz2 is available from; https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/ complete list of latest for os, 32/64, language from; https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ also, for more info about what to do, have a look at; https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/40.0.2/releasenotes/ personally, i believe you would be better of by picking a mirror site and pull the .rpm file. once you have it, run a local install. just look thru your /etc/yum.repos.d/ files to get url for mirror list then go to that page to find a site to pull from. such will be easier than pulling from mozilla because it is already complied for os. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
