Installing Thunderbird

[John Nichel]

Joe wrote:
> 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.

You can 'install' it in a common place (I have it in /usr/local/share). 
  Just unpack it where ever you want it, and give permission for your 
users to run it from there (should unpack that way).  Once a local user 
runs it for the first time, it will set up the profile for that user in 
their home directory.

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John C. Nichel
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