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[Ed Greshko]

On 08/16/15 05:29, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
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> On 15/08/15 16:53, Ed Greshko wrote:
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>> On 08/16/15 00:39, 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 ...
>> If you have the dnf-plugins-core package installed dnf will have a "download" option.
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>> See http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli_vs_yum.html and the section on "Changes in DNF plugins compared to Yum utilities".
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> .
> It looks like: |download_packages|(/pkglist/, /progress=None/)
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>    Download packages in pkglist from remote repositories.
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> might be the command I need? But I can't make it work?
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> # dnf install dnf-download_packages
> Last metadata expiration check performed 2:02:23 ago on Sat Aug 15 15:14:40 2015.
> No package dnf-download_packages available.
> Error: Unable to find a match.
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>

>From your previous message I was under the impression you only wished to download the thunderbird rpm.

dnf download thunderbird

would do that as long as you have the dnf-plugins-core package installed.

Is there something I'm missing?

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