thunderbird install

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John Lagrue wrote:

> Jon Savage wrote:
>
>>> I am guessing that you downloaded a .tar.gz file for thunderbird? Not
>>> sure how you tried to install it, but if you can get an rpm (RedHat
>>> Package Manager) file to install from, that is always preferable. With
>>> rpm. you can upgrade a package (rpm -Uvh packagename.rpm), or remove it
>>> (rpm -e packagename), etc. With a .tar.gz file, you have to manually
>>> keep track of where everything gets installed.
>>>
>>> That said, the answer is 'yes' to your question about using apt-get. I
>>> don't use apt-get myself, but I do use yum and up2date. In the case of
>>> thunderbird, though, I have not found an rpm (maybe I have just not
>>> looked in the right place).  So, don't be surprised if apt-get does not
>>> find the thunderbird rpm.
>>>
>>> There is a good howto on building your own thunderbird rpm at:
>>>   
>>
>>
>> There are rpms available for both Firefox & Thunderbird- If memore
>> serves on Fedora Extras from fedora.us
>>  
>>
> Is there? I can't find it. All I have is version 0.6 which is old now. 
> Does anyone know where a FFC2 rpm is for version 0.8?
>
> JDL
>
>
There is a tutorial on how to build your own thunderbird rpms at 
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/