How to Install Thunderbird 3.1

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

Why are you people so lazy and don't compile it on your own?

[timgood]

Why are you people so lazy and don't compile it on your own?

Yes, whenever I install Linux I build and design a new operating system from scatch, rather than use a prebuilt Distro.

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

There is a difference in compiling just one app or a whole operating system

[FrancoNero]

will the above posted .deb "update" my 3.0.X or should I remove my thunderbird installation first?

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

I uninstalled TB 3.0.x first but to be sure that you don't loose anything you should backup your TB profile which is normally found in ~/.thunderbird

[BanjoBoy]

Are you sure your script works? When I use it, I get thunderbird-1.9.2-1.deb building Thunderbird v3.1.1, but it installs thunderbird v3.1.1, but without using the .deb file, it's installed by the makefile in the Thunderbird source.

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 $SRCDIR
showNotification "Starting configure"
xterm -e "./configure --enable-application=mail --enable-static --enable-calendar --enable-official-branding"
showNotification "Starting make"
xterm -e "make -j4"
showNotification "Creating deb"
xterm -e "sudo checkinstall -D --install=no --pkgname='thunderbird' --pkgversion='$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.

[FrancoNero]

there's a new thunderbird out. what's the best way to upgrade now?

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

Are you sure your script works? When I use it, I get thunderbird-1.9.2-1.deb building Thunderbird v3.1.1, but it installs thunderbird v3.1.1, but without using the .deb file, it's installed by the makefile in the Thunderbird source.

First of all I said that I am no bashscript god.

Second I changed the configure a bit to
./configure --enable-application=mail --enable-official-branding --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 --enable-static --disable-tests

Third libmozz.so was missing in the thunderbird dir. I took it from comm-1.9.2/mozilla/modules/zlib/src/libmozz.so and copied it into the application drectory of thunderbird 3.1.1

For your question: 1.9.2 is the version number of comm. When doing checkinstall you see a page with all possible variables. One of them is/was version. Normally (I tried it today for 3.1.1) my script recognizes the version number on its own and puts it into the version line. But before pressing <ENTER> I always look at the lines. It seems you didn't.

[zerubbabel]

You can find an amd64 package for Thunderbird 3.1.1 here. I installed it on my system yesterday and it's working fine.

[FrancoNero]

it sais it's for 9.10...