Installing Thunderbird

[Joe]

I haven' t looked for an rpm.  I've been doing Mozilla without rpms 
forever with no problems.

Eventually, I want to upgrade to 10 or another distro like FC3, but I 
have tweaked a small bunch of things and I'm sure I'll forget some of 
them when I upgrade.  I don't have a spare machine to play with and I 
rely on this one to get stuff done every day, so I can't afford to be 
down or partially down for days or weeks while I get things running 
smoothly again.

Basically, until I get a new computer, I'm afraid to upgrade.

It did come with Phoenix, but it stopped working quite a while ago and 
since Firesomething was coming out, I didn't bother to try to fix it.

Joe

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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