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shortcut144

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 12

Using Thunderbird from Tarball

I not exactly "new" to the whole Linux setup thing but I am having a real pain in the rear with something that seems so simple.

I downloaded the new Thunderbird 3 beta 4 today from http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/t … downloads/ .

I unpacked the tarball and went into the new direcory to install and I cannot figure it out.  If I use

./configure

I get nothing but error.  So I go in the directory thru nautilus and try to find a run app, and I click all that look right, and I get nothing there either.  I get a prompt to to run the two executable text files, but after saying "run" I get nothing as well.

Please tell me this is just some dumb move by me.

Thanks in advnace

EDIT:  I JUST successfully installed arch with a DE yesterday... maybe I missing a package or two?

Last edited by shortcut144 (2009-09-22 21:36:26)

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: Using Thunderbird from Tarball

It looks like it's distributed as a compiled binary, what happens running it from a terminal (not clicking) - that will probably give some output that can tell you what's going wrong.  FWIW I tried running it on my 64bit system and get an error saying "error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64" which I think means it's only working for 32bit, though there might be a 64bit workaround.

Also it looks like there's a few different versions of the thunderbird beta in the AUR. Since you're new you might not know about it, but the AUR is one of the things I really like about arch and is definitely worth learning about.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Using Thunderbird from Tarball

Best to use this PKGBUILD http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16963
Just change the pkgver variable.

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stryder

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 500

Re: Using Thunderbird from Tarball

AFAIR there is nothing to install. You just unpack it and run it. "./thunderbird" if you are in the directory.