How to Install Thunderbird 3.1

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

Here is my proof that the manual build works. I just used a german Internationalisation after I installed 3.1.

If you also want it in your language go to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbir...3.1/win32/xpi/ and grab the language you need.

Btw, it seems that --enable-calendar doesn't work for Linux x86_64 but you can get Lightning from here.

[timgood]

I have made a 64 bit .deb for Thunderbird 3.1 which you can download here. Remember, this works for me - it may not work for you.

Hope this helps.

[sayantandas]

Hello all,

I have found another way to install thunderbird on my 64 bit ubuntu.
64bit rpms for fedora 13 are already available at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...86_64.rpm.html

. Download the rpm and convert it do deb and install using alien

sudo alien -i thunderbird-3.1-1.fc13.remi.x86_64.rpm


Cheers!

[timgood]

Hello all,

I have found another way to install thunderbird on my 64 bit ubuntu.
64bit rpms for fedora 13 are already available at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...86_64.rpm.html

. Download the rpm and convert it do deb and install using alien

sudo alien -i thunderbird-3.1-1.fc13.remi.x86_64.rpm


Cheers!

Hmmm... when I try this I get:

chown: cannot access `thunderbird-3.1//usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.1/components/compreg.dat': No such file or directory
failed chowning /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.1/components/compreg.dat to 0:0: Illegal seek at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 265, <GETPERMS> line 38.

And indeed - checking inside the rpm compreg.dat is missing.

[Strubbl]

Hmmm... when I try this I get:

chown: cannot access `thunderbird-3.1//usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.1/components/compreg.dat': No such file or directory
failed chowning /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.1/components/compreg.dat to 0:0: Illegal seek at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 265, <GETPERMS> line 38.

And indeed - checking inside the rpm compreg.dat is missing.

I get the same error.

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

I get the same error.

Just compile on your own. It's really easy.

[Strubbl]

Just compile on your own. It's really easy.

but what do i have to do if the 3.1 comes from the repo? i'd like to use the repo's version then. i don't wanna fiddle too much

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

It's not really a fiddling. For example I take almost everything from repositorys but Firefox and Thunderbird I compile on my own when I see a message that a new version is out.

It's fast done and I dn't have to wait for days until they are in the official repos. I wrote 2 shell scripts that do the job for me. I just start them and wait until xterm asks for my interaction.

[Strubbl]

It's not really a fiddling. For example I take almost everything from repositorys but Firefox and Thunderbird I compile on my own when I see a message that a new version is out.

It's fast done and I dn't have to wait for days until they are in the official repos. I wrote 2 shell scripts that do the job for me. I just start them and wait until xterm asks for my interaction.

can you share your scripts?

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

can you share your scripts?

Sure but I am no scripting god. I believe that it could be solved in a alot better way. Here is my Thunderbird dl and compile script. I created a directory called "thunderbird_source" inside my download folder and put the script in it.

#!/bin/bash

function showNotification()
{
    notify-send -i /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png Thunderbird "$1"
}

showNotification "Downloading new Source and Internationalisation"
wget -qrnd -nH -l 0 -A thunderbird-*.source.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest-3.1/source/
wget -q ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/latest-3.1/win32/xpi/de.xpi
TBVERSION=`ls | grep thunderbird- | egrep -o "3\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?"`
showNotification "Unpacking Source"
tar xjf thunderbird-"$TBVERSION".source.tar.bz2
SRCDIR=`ls | grep comm-`
cd $SRCDIR
showNotification "Starting configure"
xterm -e "./configure --enable-application=mail --enable-official-branding  --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 --enable-static --disable-tests"
showNotification "Starting make"
xterm -e "make -j4"
showNotification "Creating deb"
xterm -e "sudo checkinstall -D --install=no --pkgname='thunderbird' --pkgversion='$TBVERSION'"
xterm -e "sudo chmod a+w thunderbird_"$TBVERSION"_amd64.deb"
showNotification "Finished compiling and creating of deb paket"

If you don't need an internationalisation. Delete the line

wget -q ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/latest-3.1/win32/xpi/de.xpi

or if you want a different then german edit it to the language you need. You have to install the xpi in thunderbird after installing tb 3.1. So when you first start it it's english.

It's almost the same script for firefox.