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hydn

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From: St. Kitts

Registered: 2012-09-23

Posts: 105

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[Solved] Upgrading/replacing Tunderbird package with Tunderbird-beta

What is the best way to upgrade Thunderbird to beta?

pacman -R thunderbird
packer -S thunderbird-beta

Keeps all emails/accounts?

Or

packer -S thunderbird-beta
pacman -R thunderbird

Keeps all emails/accounts?

Does it matter?

Also, safe to use -Rsn on thunderbird after thunderbird-beta install?

Last edited by hydn (2015-10-23 16:25:56)

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mike_r

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Registered: 2009-01-22

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Re: [Solved] Upgrading/replacing Tunderbird package with Tunderbird-beta

I usually try not to comment on spelling, but you have two spectacular misspellings in your title - it made me smile :-) 

To your actual question: first, back up your .thunderbird directory before you start, better safe than sorry. Just do a "cp -rp .thunderbird .thunderbird.bak" if nothing else.

I had a quick look at the thunderbird-beta PKGBUILD - I was surprised to find that it does not have a conflict statement with the regular thunderbird package. Given that, I think the correct order should be to remove thunderbird first, then install thunderbird-beta. If you do it in reverse order, you might delete some or all of the thunderbird-beta install.

Assuming the bleeding edge isn't too much different from the official, I think it should be able to use your existing .thunderbird without much difficulty, but this is why you just made a backup. Good luck.

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hydn

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From: St. Kitts

Registered: 2012-09-23

Posts: 105

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Re: [Solved] Upgrading/replacing Tunderbird package with Tunderbird-beta

Thanks. Made me laugh out loud.

Last edited by hydn (2015-10-23 16:25:15)

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