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rlees85

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Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

Just did a good old pacman --Syu and Thunderbird got upgraded to 38.0.1 - the latest stable!

In this version, the lightening XPI is bundled, apparently. It is not in the version packaged in the Arch repository though

Also you cannot install it from the add-on manager in Thunderbird as I guess it expects it to be bundled.

So... now no lightening, unless I mess about with downloading XPIs manually.

Am I missing something? There must be a cleaner way to do this?

Cheers ... !!

Stefan Husmann

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Registered: 2007-08-07

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

AFAIK this never has been packaged in Arch that way, therfor there are AUR packages, e.g. thunderbird-lightning-bin .

progandy

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

Lightning has to be enabled in the thunderbird build config.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc … _Lightning
Meanwhile, you can try to drag&drop the download url for Lightning 4.0b6 into the thunderbird addons list.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde … sion-4.0b6

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michi1990

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

Installing the XPi manually doesnt work also. It says its incompatiple with Firefox 38.0.1.

I hope for a fix soon, as this is my main calendar

rlees85

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

Ah I see, thanks! So how I understand it, the package maintainers (for Arch) have decided to opt not to include Lightening with Thunderbird - keeping Lightening separate in the AUR? If so fair enough.. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks !

progandy

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

Ah I see, thanks! So how I understand it, the package maintainers (for Arch) have decided to opt not to include Lightening with Thunderbird - keeping Lightening separate in the AUR? If so fair enough.. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks !

I hope a stable standalone version will be released or at least I'd like some documentation on how to build it.
Edit: I think I found the release candidate.
http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/moz … ux-x86_64/

Last edited by progandy (2015-06-11 18:22:13)

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michi1990

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

Edit: I think I found the release candidate.
http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/moz … ux-x86_64/

Yes It works flawlessly Thank you

rlees85

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

Good find yep that works perfectly.

I also hope it ends up in the Thunderbird Add-on repo eventually. Much easier than the AUR (well for me anyway).

Roken

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

Lightining always dies for me after a TB upgrade, but after a few days it's good again.

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Potomac

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

the culprit is the author of lightning, he thinks that firefox 38 has not been released ( but it's wrong ), that's why there is no official update of lightning :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde … ws/717296/

Thunderbird 38 not yet released

by Philipp Kewisch (Developer) on June 11, 2015 · permalink · translate

Thunderbird 38 is not officially released yet, we haven't enabled updates for it. If you already have it, I assume you have it installed via some Linux distribution that pulled the files early. In that case please also install Lightning from the Linux distribution, or wait a few days until Lightning 4.0.0.1 is available from addons.mozilla.org.

it's sad to see that there is no synchronization between the author of lightning and thunderbird's developpers, it's not serious because lightning is a very important extension

Last edited by Potomac (2015-06-12 02:20:54)

Awebb

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Re: Thunderbird 38.0.1 - Lightening missing?

The clusterfuck returns. Now the plugin works, but it complains, that the functionality has been built into Thunderbird and wants to deactivate itself. Since even the screenshot on the Thunderbird homepage shows lightning as a part, I consider a bug report.