[PLUG] how to find and install an epel testing package?

Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux.com
Sun Oct 26 16:49:39 UTC 2014


On 10/26/2014 09:21 AM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just updated to CentOS 6.6, which caused thunderbird to be updated to 
> 31.2.0.  As a result, I need an update for the calendar extension, 
> thunderbird-lightning.  I can see that a testing version of it is 
> available, but I can't seem to find where it is actually located.
> 
> Here's a page that shows an update is available:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/thunderbird-lightning-3.3-1.el6
> 
> I tried the following command, per the epel wiki 
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/testing) but it did not find the 
> package.
> sudo yum install thunderbird-lightning --enablerepo=epel-testing
> 
> Here's what looks to be the contents of the epel testing repository.  No 
> sign of the package here.
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/6/x86_64/
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how epel testing is supposed to work?

I'll offer an alternate suggestion - don't bother using the distro
packaged version for Thunderbird and Firefox extensions. If you just use
the app itself to install an extension (Tools->Add Ons), it will get
stored in your .mozilla or .thunderbird profile.

HTH,

Scott




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