installing Lightning

[accodata]

Hi All

I was trying to install Lightning as an add-on with Thunderbird.

After doing some reading I was not the only one having some problems,

To Install Lightning, I needed Thunderbird 3.1, and installed on my system is 3.06.

When I did that I now get this message,

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugensan/mozilla/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Can someone please help me to fix the error?

with thanks

Tracey

[wojox]

Purge Thunderbird 3.06 and install the newest one from Mozilla.

[accodata]

thank you I had thought of that... and I do that how.

I mean I know how to uninstall through the software centre, but the installation for a fresh install I am pretty thick with

:)

[wojox]

Purge Thunderbird

Go here Thunderbird (http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/)

Download it to your Download directory.

Then open a terminal and copy and paste


tar xjf thunderbird-*.tar.bz2

Copy to your /opt directory


sudo cp -r thunderbird /opt

[accodata]

Hi

Thank you for your help

I have this message after trying to purge Thunderbird.

tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ tar xjf thunderbird-*.tar.bz2
tar: thunderbird-*.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ ^C
tracey@tracey-desktop:~$

what have I stuffed up?

with thanks

[wojox]

You need to move to what ever directory you downloaded it from

So if you downloaded to Downloads try


cd Downloads

[uRock]

Is the command for purging
sudo apt-get purge thunderbird?

[accodata]

thanks

yes it is in Downloads

tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ cd Downloads
tracey@tracey-desktop:~/Downloads$ ^C
tracey@tracey-desktop:~/Downloads$


thanks

[wojox]

Is the command for purging
sudo apt-get purge thunderbird?

Yes it is.

[accodata]

thank you for that...

it has been purged...

Thanks for you time, I am very thick, but very thankful for your help.

[accodata]

so now do I type in terminal
tar xjf thunderbird-*.tar.bz2
what does the * mean? I have to find it?

[wojox]

Your welcome. Did you copy it to /opt or leave it in your Download directory?

[wojox]

so now do I type in terminal
tar xjf thunderbird-*.tar.bz2
what does the * mean? I have to find it?

It will unpack it and you will then have a Thunderbird folder.

[accodata]

The thunderbird file wont move to the /opt file

[wojox]

Go back into Downloads


cd Downloads

Copy it to /opt


sudo cp -r thunderbird /opt

[accodata]

I don't know what I have done, but Thunderbird is now installed, 3.1

Thnakyou so very much

[wojox]

The thunderbird file wont move to the /opt file

You want to copy the whole folder.

[accodata]

nope

I didn't install it.

but i opened something in a terminal and it ran

I am so wanting to smack myself on the side of the head

[accodata]

tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ cd Downloads
tracey@tracey-desktop:~/Downloads$ sudo cp -r thunderbird /opt
[sudo] password for tracey:
cp: cannot stat `thunderbird': No such file or directory
tracey@tracey-desktop:~/Downloads$ ^C
tracey@tracey-desktop:~/Downloads$


<please insert my smack in the head NOW>

[wojox]

nope

I didn't install it.

but i opened something in a terminal and it ran

I am so wanting to smack myself on the side of the head

Did you go to


cd /opt

And


ls

You should see a Thunderbird folder.

[accodata]

ok, I now have the thunderbird file in /opt

tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ cd desktop
bash: cd: desktop: No such file or directory
tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ cd Desktop
tracey@tracey-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo cp -r thunderbird /opt
tracey@tracey-desktop:~/Desktop$ ^C
tracey@tracey-desktop:~/Desktop$

[accodata]

the terminal code stuff.

tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ cd /opt
tracey@tracey-desktop:/opt$ ls
thunderbird
tracey@tracey-desktop:/opt$

[wojox]

the terminal code stuff.

tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ cd /opt
tracey@tracey-desktop:/opt$ ls
thunderbird
tracey@tracey-desktop:/opt$

There it is. It's there.

now run
/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird

[accodata]

ok, have done that.

I can't find thunderbird, so I am thinking I have something else to do?

again thank you

[wojox]

That's weird. Try


cd /opt/thunderbird

Then


thunderbird

[accodata]

tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ cd /opt/thunderbird
tracey@tracey-desktop:/opt/thunderbird$ thunderbird
The program 'thunderbird' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
tracey@tracey-desktop:/opt/thunderbird$

[Darkness Des]

You have to put ./ before it, otherwise the terminal will think that it is a command and not a file. So,


cd /opt/thunderbird
./thunderbird

[accodata]

so I have to put a "." infront of where?

please

[wojox]

You have to put ./ before it, otherwise the terminal will think that it is a command and not a file. So,


cd /opt/thunderbird
./thunderbird


Copy and paste Darkness two commands an it should work.

[accodata]

Hi

Thank you for that, when I put in those lines.

Thunderbird opens, then when I close the Terminal it closes.

[accodata]

Hi

When I do the sudo apt-get update

I get this:

tracey@tracey-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugensan/mozilla/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_AU
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_AU
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic/multiverse Translation-en_AU
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic/universe Translation-en_AU
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
404 Not Found
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugensan/mozilla/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[wojox]

Okay lets make a link for it.

Go into Main Menu

On the left click Internet

On the right click New Item

Name = Thunderbird

Command = /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird

You can also try Alt+F2

/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird

[accodata]

WOOHOO!!

Tis fixed thank you so very much.

Now I need to forget when I found the main menu thing... so I don't stuff that up to

again.

Many thanks

[wojox]

w00t w00t good job. Your Welcome. ;)