[SOLVED] No Lightning calendar for Thunderbird 52.0-1

jib2 · 2017-04-09 21:04:36

Looks like thunderbird-i18n-?? doesn't include calendar localization.
So now with thunderbird 52 we have a built-in calendar but no localization...

Netpilgrim · 2017-04-09 21:11:24

89c51 wrote:

Hmmm. Just installed the latest package (52.0-2), -removed lightning from the add ons just in case- restarted it and have no calendar options.

52.0-2 is still built without the calendar feature but it now works with the Lightning add-on 5.4b4, which 52.0-1 did not.

OldNuc · 2017-04-09 21:16:46

Just removed the latest stable release of Lightening, upgraded to 52.0-2. Following the upgrade installed lightening 5.4b4 and the calendar is back in operation.

tramsmört · 2017-04-09 21:21:00

89c51 wrote:

Hmmm. Just installed the latest package (52.0-2), -removed lightning from the add ons just in case- restarted it and have no calendar options.

I had the same problem. Try copying /usr/lib/thunderbird/distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/ into the extensions/ directory of your profile, restart Thunderbird, and it should show up as a disabled add-on.

loqs · 2017-04-09 21:32:03

Netpilgrim wrote:

52.0-2 is still built without the calendar feature

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … 5e203815d3

Potomac · 2017-04-09 21:52:49

thunderbird package has just been updated ( 52.0-2 ), it solves the problem,

don't try to disable the lightning module in the thunderbird, it's now a built-in module and needs to be enabled

Last edited by Potomac (2017-04-09 21:55:47)

Salkay · 2017-04-09 22:24:29

89c51 wrote:

Hmmm. Just installed the latest package (52.0-2), -removed lightning from the add ons just in case- restarted it and have no calendar options.

52.0-2 works fine for me. I don't entirely understand it, but perhaps TB "installs" the add-on for you, but it's still possible to manually remove it? Since you presumably don't run it as superuser, I guess it's just turned off? Can you test with a new profile?

fettouhi wrote:

Anybody know what version of the google provider data works with Thunderbird 52. Version 3.1 only goes up to 50?

Do you mean "Provider for Google Calendar"? I can see that you are correct, but for some reason Provider 3.1 works fine with TB 52 for me… No idea why.

Netpilgrim · 2017-04-10 03:02:48

loqs wrote:

Netpilgrim wrote:
52.0-2 is still built without the calendar feature
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … 5e203815d3

I stand corrected. When I start the new version without an existing .thunderbird directory the calendar functions are there and the add-ons manager shows Lightning 5.4 (without beta) installed.

But apparently there is a problem if you previously had a Lightning add-on installed and then removed. Or perhaps this behavior is intentional so the update does not install something the user apparently did not want to have before. In any case I had to follow these steps to get the included Lightning to work:

Move .thunderbird to .thunderbird.bak.
Start and close Thunderbird.
Delete .thunderbird.bak/…default/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}
Copy .thunderbird/…default/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} to .thunderbird.bak/…default/extensions.
Delete .thunderbird.
Move .thunderbird.bak back to .thunderbird.
Start Thunderbird and enable the Lightning extension in the add-ons manager.

Edit: Basically what tramsmört said already.

Last edited by Netpilgrim (2017-04-10 03:16:37)

fettouhi · 2017-04-10 04:47:45

Salkay wrote:

89c51 wrote:
Hmmm. Just installed the latest package (52.0-2), -removed lightning from the add ons just in case- restarted it and have no calendar options.
52.0-2 works fine for me. I don't entirely understand it, but perhaps TB "installs" the add-on for you, but it's still possible to manually remove it? Since you presumably don't run it as superuser, I guess it's just turned off? Can you test with a new profile?
fettouhi wrote:
Anybody know what version of the google provider data works with Thunderbird 52. Version 3.1 only goes up to 50?
Do you mean "Provider for Google Calendar"? I can see that you are correct, but for some reason Provider 3.1 works fine with TB 52 for me… No idea why.

Yes I mean "Provider for Google Calendar". I am using version 3.3 which I found here.

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/li … x86_64.xpi

stupidus · 2017-04-10 20:58:34

Curious, that it does not simply work for some people. I did not have to do anything special, I just upgraded to 52.0-2 and lightning just worked with my normal profile. No previous un-installation or copying of any files necessary. The only thing that is not working is the addon Tag Toolbar.

imdn · 2017-04-11 12:38:54

Thanks @netpilgrim and @tramsmört. Just upgrading didn't work for me. Not surprising considering the years of cruft that has piled inside my profile directory;

stupidus · 2017-04-11 16:13:53

While I did not have issues with the installation, it turned out that I cannot create new events. However, that might be related to the pass-manager addon, as I also could not send emails. In the meantime I downgraded again. I should probably report a bug with pass-manager.

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progandy · 2017-04-11 20:12:44

The calendar is reallly missing the german language file... I installed the latest release candidate for lightning 5.4 in my language to get it back. (The most recent candidate should be the same as the final release.)
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/li … ux-x86_64/

annoying_daniel · 2017-04-11 22:13:39

stupidus wrote:

Curious, that it does not simply work for some people. I did not have to do anything special, I just upgraded to 52.0-2 and lightning just worked with my normal profile. No previous un-installation or copying of any files necessary. The only thing that is not working is the addon Tag Toolbar.

Did those people already have existing TB language packs that were previously installed?

loqs · 2017-04-11 23:14:50

progandy wrote:

The calendar is reallly missing the german language file...

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50219 and https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53581#comment156656 perhaps the response to the request to reopen 53581 should indicate if arch will pursue merging the translation strings from lightning into thunderbird's language packs or not.
Edit:
replaced "translation strings into lightning" with "translation strings from lightning into thunderbird's language packs"

Last edited by loqs (2017-04-11 23:44:39)

brix · 2017-04-11 23:28:34

89c51 wrote:

Hmmm. Just installed the latest package (52.0-2), -removed lightning from the add ons just in case- restarted it and have no calendar options.

It seems the newly 'built in' extension is still an extension (see post #19 upthread). It 'installs itself' so to speak, but still appears in the add ons. In which case it would be inadvisable to uninstall it.

smirky · 2017-04-13 06:05:44

What about https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thun … ecalendar/
Not sure if I'm willing to test it, but it's pretty important for me so I'm not updating thunderbird at the moment.

positronik · 2017-04-13 07:18:57

smirky wrote:

What about https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thun … ecalendar/
Not sure if I'm willing to test it, but it's pretty important for me so I'm not updating thunderbird at the moment.

I think I installed it few weeks ago. I don't have access to the computer now so I can't be 100% sure.
However, one thing that I am sure is that I deleted lightning from the dependencies in the PKGBUILD since it is already included in thunderbird.
BTW it works with my Uni M$ exchange calendar.

Thomas_Do · 2017-04-13 08:30:57

progandy wrote:

The calendar is reallly missing the german language file... I installed the latest release candidate for lightning 5.4 in my language to get it back. (The most recent candidate should be the same as the final release.)
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/li … ux-x86_64/

Vielen Dank,

yesterday I was looking for this file, but could not locate it on the mozilla site.

Works great!

smirky · 2017-04-13 13:09:55

Just tested the exchange plugin. It works just fine, I just had to patch it with a pull request that's not yet mainlined, in order to be able to accept events.
All good, yay

Corax · 2017-04-13 21:11:50

For people still having problems with the extension not being there on existing profiles, you don't need to do complicated things with your profile. You just need to copy the extension folder into your profile (make sure no old Lightning extension is still installed):

$ cp -a '/usr/lib/thunderbird/distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}' ~/.thunderbird/<profile>/extensions

Courtesy oberon from the Manjaro forum: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/lightning-c … d-52/21507

hamelg · 2017-04-19 17:13:09

smirky wrote:

Just tested the exchange plugin. It works just fine, I just had to patch it with a pull request that's not yet mainlined, in order to be able to accept events.

Unfortunately, here the exchange plugin (v 3.9.0) doesn't work.
I can't connect to the exchange server, the login fails with HTTP 401.
I'm not alone, see here :
https://github.com/Ericsson/exchangecalendar/issues/580

TE · 2017-06-05 19:47:57

Corax wrote:

$ cp -a '/usr/lib/thunderbird/distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}' ~/.thunderbird/<profile>/extensions
Courtesy oberon from the Manjaro forum: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/lightning-c … d-52/21507

Hi gang, finally getting to this as I was waiting on ExchangeCalendar upstream to work some issues out first (more below for those stuck on this); I would like to recommend you not copy this, but instead symlink it so that upgrades to Thunderbird packaged extension are reflected in your user profile. Unless I misunderstand, the intent is to now always have the "right" version of Lightning travel with Thunderbird, so using the one each package/upgrade ships with using a symlink seems better. The extension does not store it's data in this subdirectory, it's only for the actual code itself - your user data is stored elsewhere, so 'read only' is just fine.

(shut down thunderbird)

# clean out old downloaded version
$ cd $HOME/.thunderbird/<profile>/extensions/
$ rm -rf \{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103\}

# link in version from the package in it's place
$ ln -s /usr/lib/thunderbird/distribution/extensions/\{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103\} .

That will get your Lightning back in shape without having to make new profiles or other hijinks. It should then magically give you the new compatible version of Lightning next package upgrade since the UUID never changes for an extension like this. The above is based on the latest Thunderbird packages that added the enable-calendar build option.

Exchange Calendar: The EC developer under Ericsson appears to have gone MIA, so a group of folks forked it out and have bundled a bunch of commits and fixes to get it working again with the latest TB 52+, here's the new place folks are working: https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exc … r/releases The 4.0.0-beta1 (which is a spinoff from this thread: https://github.com/Ericsson/exchangecalendar/issues/580 ) was then upgraded after the above and my Exchange calendar popped right back up.

eschwartz · 2017-06-06 02:19:26

Hmm, I figured it would make a lot more sense to link it from "distribution" to the default system extensions:

ln -s "/usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}" "../distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/"

Has been working just fine for a while now... if you build your own thunderbird package (e.g. thunderbird-gtk2) you can move the file instead, during package()

Salkay · 2017-06-06 02:39:17

@Eschwartz That makes more sense to me, but you've got that command the wrong way around, right? I think it should be

# ln -s "../distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}" /usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions

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