Installing Thunderbird

[Joe]

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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