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ruscook

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From: Sydney Australia

Registered: 2007-08-27

Posts: 105

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Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

Hi folks,
now the package maintainer has dropped support for lightning in TB3 (fair enough his/her choice)...

The problem I have is Mozilla only seem to keep the x86 version on their website, there are no x86-64 bit packages in the AUR repository and the lightning update extension on;y finds the x86-686 version on the web  I am no where near competent enough to compile it, let alone make a package for it.

So how do we get it for 64bit TB3?
Thanks
Russ

Dirk Sohler

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 109

Re: Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

So how do we get it for 64bit TB3?

We should group and start an on-line petition against Mozilla.com only releasing 32 bits versions of TB and Fx.

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Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

doesnt't the new calendar integrated in TB3 suits you? anyway, I see that in extra there is thunderbird x64, and in aur you can find lightning-nightly that can be used with tb3 (as indicated in the comments on the normal version og lightning on AUR)

ruscook

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From: Sydney Australia

Registered: 2007-08-27

Posts: 105

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Re: Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

doesnt't the new calendar integrated in TB3 suits you? anyway, I see that in extra there is thunderbird x64, and in aur you can find lightning-nightly that can be used with tb3 (as indicated in the comments on the normal version og lightning on AUR)

I'm using the package for TB3. The latest version has had lightning removed as per the "bug" request to the maintainer.
The version of lightning in the AUR won't compile for 64bit.

Hence the reason for my post.

Yes, about time mozilla released 64bit code on their website...
Russ

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

doesnt't the new calendar integrated in TB3 suits you? anyway, I see that in extra there is thunderbird x64, and in aur you can find lightning-nightly that can be used with tb3 (as indicated in the comments on the normal version og lightning on AUR)

I'm using the package for TB3. The latest version has had lightning removed as per the "bug" request to the maintainer.
The version of lightning in the AUR won't compile for 64bit.

Hence the reason for my post.

Yes, about time mozilla released 64bit code on their website...
Russ

The bug request was a bit annoying, yes. I'm sure thunderbird-lightning can be put to the AUR with the proper configure flag set though.

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

thunderbird-branded from aur has calendar enabled

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yugrotavele

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From: Fond du Lac, WI

Registered: 2007-10-14

Posts: 12

Re: Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

I know this is an old thread but there is a 64 bit version of lightning available at
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla … ux-x86_64/
and it works fine with the Thunderbird from the extra repository.

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relative

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Registered: 2010-07-05

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Re: Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla … ux-x86_64/

fabertawe

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From: Lloegr

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 279

Re: Thunderbird 3 - x86-64 and Lightning

There's also 1.0b2 at http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla … ux-x86_64/. It could be rc3 renamed though!

Anyone having a problem with Thunderbird silently failing to run with 1.0b2 enabled? I've been getting this behaviour recently with TB and FF where certain addons have to be disabled even though they're supposed to work or I get silent fails.

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