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.