PaDV
February 24th, 2005, 09:31 PM
1. ACTIVATE THE WARTY BACKPORTS REPOSITORY
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line:
deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports warty-backports main
sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
3. INSTALL A LANGUAGE PACK FOR YOUR LANGUAGE (SKIP FOR ENGLISH)
The language pack for thunderbird 1.0 is not available from the backports project but can be downloaded from debian testing at the following url: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=mozilla-thunderbird-locale&searchon=names&subword=1&version=testing&release=all
download the package "mozilla-thunderbird-locale-xx" to eg. your home directory (click the "all" button), xx is your language code.
dpkg -i ~/mozilla-thunderbird-locale-xx_1.0.debian1-1_all.deb
4. MAKE THUNDERBIRD YOUR DEFAULT MAIL CLIENT
To make sure thunderbird opens instead of evolution when clicking mailto urls in eg. firefox you have to make thunderbird the default mail client.
Go to "Computer > Desktop Preferences > Default Applications" or similar in your language.
Go to E-mail program and choose custom program.
Enter the following command: mozilla-thunderbird -compose %s
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line:
deb http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports warty-backports main
sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
3. INSTALL A LANGUAGE PACK FOR YOUR LANGUAGE (SKIP FOR ENGLISH)
The language pack for thunderbird 1.0 is not available from the backports project but can be downloaded from debian testing at the following url: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=mozilla-thunderbird-locale&searchon=names&subword=1&version=testing&release=all
download the package "mozilla-thunderbird-locale-xx" to eg. your home directory (click the "all" button), xx is your language code.
dpkg -i ~/mozilla-thunderbird-locale-xx_1.0.debian1-1_all.deb
4. MAKE THUNDERBIRD YOUR DEFAULT MAIL CLIENT
To make sure thunderbird opens instead of evolution when clicking mailto urls in eg. firefox you have to make thunderbird the default mail client.
Go to "Computer > Desktop Preferences > Default Applications" or similar in your language.
Go to E-mail program and choose custom program.
Enter the following command: mozilla-thunderbird -compose %s