Installing Thunderbird

[Joe]

I could do that, but I never had to with Mozilla.  As far as users are 
concerned, it appears to have been designed for multiuser installations 
with all? the personal stuff going into $HOME/.thunderbird so it looks 
like it should be able to work.

I just don't like the idea of having multiple installations of one 
version of one package on a machine.  It wastes a lot of disk space  
(and, maybe memory when multiple users are running separate copies) and 
it creates maintenance headaches.

Joe

jb wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> 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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>>>
>>>
>>>   
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