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Thunderbird installation

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:32 am
by raghavan20
I have been trying to install thunderbird mail client on fedora core 5 but i could not.

i have downloaded the recent linux version, thunderbird-1.5.0.8.tar.gz

1. i downloaded the tgz and unzipped and uncompressed
2. it is in a folder called thunderbird in /usr/
3. according to manual, the file thunderbird should run
4. if i type in thunderbird in konsole, it still does not run
5. i have made sure thunderbird has execute permission but still does not work

Any help is appreciated.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:36 am
by Jenk
There should (will) be pre-built binaries for Fedora.

iirc it uses apt-get so run:

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# apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:52 am
by raghavan20
i managed to install using yum -y install thunderbird but i still would be interested to know how to install from the .tar.gz file i have.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:41 am
by Jenk

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# tar xvjf /home/username/thunderbird*gz /opt/
# cd /opt/thunderbird*
# ./configure
# make && make install

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:42 am
by raghavan20
there are no make or configure files in there...it is not a distribution to install from source jenk.

Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:20 am
by Jenk
did you run as:

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# cd /usr/thunderbird
# ./thunderbird
(or just /usr/thunderbird/thunderbird) ?

Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:29 am
by volka
thunderbird-1.5.0.8.tar.gz contains the file mozilla-installer-bin
After extracting the archive's contents I'd try to execute this file.