Re: waterfox rpms?

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On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM ToddAndMargo via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/15/25 3:33 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM ToddAndMargo via users
> > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 6/14/25 11:43 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM ToddAndMargo via users
> >>> <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 6/13/25 6:55 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> >>>>>    [...]
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Todd,
> >>>>
> >>>> And thank you for all your assistance.
> >>>>
> >>>> All the information necessary to assist me with my question
> >>>> was provided in my initial post and subsequent posts.
> >>>> Somewhere you got lost or confused.   Would you like me
> >>>> to go over each of your points above and explain what you
> >>>> missed point by point?
> >>>
> >>> I would like to see that. I don't have my orbuculum handy.
> >>>
> >>> Here is your initial post:
> >>>
> >>>     > It is time for me to upgrade my waterfox and waterfox classic.
> >>>     >
> >>>     > Problem:  I installed them so long ago I forgot where
> >>>     > I got their rpm's from?
> >>>
> >>> Jeff
> >>
> >> Hi Jeff,
> >>
> >> The question is where can I re-find the rpms for Waterfox
> >> and Waterfox Classic.  There is no missing information.
> >>
> >> By the way, the answer is:
> >>
> >>       https://software.opensuse.org/package/waterfox-classic-kpe
> >>       https://software.opensuse.org/package/waterfox
> >>
> >> Perhaps you were expanding the request to something
> >> larger than the question I asked?  I am guilty of
> >> that myself at times.
> >
> > No.
>
> What was wrong with the first post?
>
> >
> > Your second post -- a follow up to Patrick O'Callaghan who told you
> > how to find the repo -- was:
> >
> >     > But I can't seem to get the dnf command correct
> >     > ...
> >     > Now what am I doing wrong?
>
> And Patrick along with Todd Z both answered what I
> was doing wrong.  It was mainly typos and search.brave.com
> AI answer of the DNF5 command that I kept goofing.
> The AI was quoting the manual page that I was accused
> of not reading.
>
>
> >
> > That's when Todd Z started providing the commands to help you. In this
> > case, he helped you with the use of '--from-repo', which should have
> > been 'addrepo --from-repofile=<file>.'
>
> And I thanked him for it.
>
> >
> > However, you still had problems, and later said:
> >
> >     > About fifteen typos later
> >     > ...
> >     > But the repo 's install would not work...
> >
> > So Todd Z gave you all the commands.
>
> and other folk did too.
>
> > He also explained possible
> > problems with the signing keys used to install waterfox, and provided
> > commands to help with that, too.
>
> The repo gave a warning of
>
>      Warning: skipped OpenPGP checks for 1 package
> from repository: @commandline
>
> So I removed the repo and downloaded the tar ball
> instead.  I did state this.  That should have ended
> things, unless someone was curious about something,
> which is fine by me.
>
> > Maybe you are getting old and misremembering things?
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Thanking him for his help and doing something different
> annoyed him, so he decided to condescend.  He really,
> really wanted me to (re)install the repo the gave a
> bad rpm of Waterfox.
>
> When people who know what they are doing need more
> information, they just ask for it.
>
> When people want to condescend, they go off on a
> tirade about not being given enough information and
> how annoying they find that.

Plonk!
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