Installing Thunderbird

[jb]

I'm probably wrong but I believe all I had to do is unpack Thunderbird 
in my home folder to use it. Just have your other users unpack it in 
their home folders? Don't they have their own email addresses to check? 
If you install a defacto version for the computer it will have your 
email settings and they would have to add their addresses to your 
settings for one big email extravaganza. Like I said I might be wrong 
but that may be the reason your having trouble with it? Security between 
users?
jb

JJ Neff wrote:

>Is there no RPM package for Thunderbird?  Can you upgrade to Mandrake 10?  I
>only ask this because I am running Man 9.x and I run into many install problems
>with incompatible versions of software that will not be upgraded in 9 since 10
>is the de facto standard.  Mandrake 9 is almost 2 versions back in Firefox
>support, still running phoenix I believe.
>
>JJN
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>--- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
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>>Hi.  I'm confused about where to install Thunderbird (1.02).  I'm using 
>>Mandrake Linux 9.1.  I currently have only one user, but may want to add 
>>more later.
>>
>>If I install tbird under my user, then another user will not be able to 
>>use it.
>>
>>I tried installing it as root in /usr/lib/thunderbird.  This sort of 
>>works, but when I run it as a user, I get  error messages about not 
>>being able to access the extensions database, etc.  It then runs fine, 
>>but it treats anything to do with extensions as a no-op.  It's obviously 
>>upset about file and directory permissions.
>>
>>I tried chmoding /usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions and everything in it to 
>>777, but that didn't seem to change anything and opened up security 
>>holes (so I don't want to leave it that way). 
>>
>>Can somebody tell me how this is supposed to be done?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Joe
>>
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