On 15/08/15 13:56, g wrote:
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.
.
Yes, thanks for the suggestions. I dnf removed and yumex installed
again, since dnf from the command line just stopped, I dunno why,
another problem most likely that I don't want to deal with right now.
My real problem is that Viasat/Wildblue are no longer using gmail,
Google has apparently decided they no longer want to provide that
service to ISPs. That leaves me with thousands of messages I can't seem
to transfer between Thunderbird using gmail and Thunderbird using
wildblue, no matter what I have tried Thunderbird has choked on the result.
For a long time I have simply done: rsync -avu
/home/bobg/.Thunderbird/6gjqb341.default/Mail/* /mnt/HOME1/MAIL to an
NFS server and reversed the process in the other computers to transfer
mail and peripheral stuff so all the thunderbirds look identical,
filters, directories, etc. Now Thunderbird configured for
"mail.wildblue.net will not accept files from the original configured as
pop.gmail.com, and that too is probably just as well. However once I
have all the Thunderbird computers in the new configuration I will have
difficulty reading the old messages should I have need for them, I will
pretty much have burnt my bridges. I could do something but it just
seems messy, ideally I would like to transfer between the two.
There are other disadvantages to the switch away from gmail too but this
is not the place for that. I have other users on my system and I have
been busy fixing stuff.
Thanks,
Bob
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