Thunderbird 3.1

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 15:58:37 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/19/2010 07:59 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
>>> I see that Thunderbird 3.1 RC2 is in the rawhide repository.  When
>>> Thunderbird 3.1 is release, will it become part of Fedora 13 or will it
>>> be held until Fedora 14?
>>>
>>> It appears that 3.1 is faster and more reliable than 3.0.4.
>>>
>>
>> Unlikely.  Newer versions of Mozilla apps typically require major new
>> versions of XULRunner as well and since there are many apps  using
>> XUlRunner,  Fedora typically does not update to a major version of
>> Firefox or Thunderbird in a existing release.
>
> Even though it may not be planned as a provided rpm for f13 it is
> actually pretty easy to install Thunderbird 3.1 of any version
> yourself and run it.
>
> What you do is the following:
> Make yourself a directory where you will hold the application - eg in
> my case it is /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/ but you can choose anywhere
> you like.
> Then download the tarball of the version you are interested in - for example:
> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.1rc2/linux-i686/en-GB/thunderbird-3.1rc2.tar.bz2
>
> As root cd to the storage directory you have chosen, and move the file
> to the directory where you want to store it, and use the tar command
> to uncompress the tarball.

I forgot a couple of details here - use tar jxf
thunderbird-3.1rc2.tar.bz2 in this case....

>
> Then you will have a directory such as in my case: /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/

Slight correction: in my case: /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/thunderbird

> What I do is to rename that directory to one with the date appended so
 the directory name is /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/thunderbird-3.1-100619
> Then I make a symlink to that calling it simply thunderbird by doing:
> ln -s thunderbird-3.1-100619 thunderbird

after first cd'ing  to the directory /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird
>
> So now /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/thunderbird is a link to the
> directory containing the files for this new version of Thunderbird.
> The reason for doing this is that you can download newer versions and
> keep the original directory - so later you may then have
> thunderbird-3.1-100630 for example and then remove the link and relink
> to the newer directory - the rest will then work without the need to
> do any other changes - and if the newer version has a problem then
> merely removing the link and remaking it to the original directory
> will then get you back to where you were.
>
> Then I create a standard script file that uses the application by
> creating a file called thunderbird in /opt/Local/bin (but you could
> put it anywhere you like)
> That file contains:
> #!/bin/sh
> TDIR=/opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/thunderbird
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$TDIR
> exec $TDIR/thunderbird
>
> I make an icon on the desktop, of type application, that calls this
> file as a command - i.e. the command is /opt/Local/bin/thunderbird
>
> Make sure that you keep a copy of the your Thunderbird profile in
> .thunderbird in your user area in case there are problems going from a
> very old version of thunderbird to the new one.
>
> Double click on the new icon and this new version of Thunderbird
> should fire up and run.
>
> I have been using the latest nightly versions of thunderbird 3.1 for a
> very long time and it works without any problems for me.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
> --
> mike c
>



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mike c


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