Re: Newbie Question: Installing Firefox
From: Morten Juhl Johansen (morten_at_leetness.dk)
Date: 12/17/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:23:31 +0100
Den Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:26:12 -0600. skrev Moz:
<snippety>
> Unfortunately the Thunderbird release notes only say:
>
> <<<
> Other Platforms
> Extract the compressed archive and run thunderbird
>>>>
>
> This is not terribly helpful to those of use who have no idea (yet!)
> of how to extract the archive.
>
> Thanks again...
The ThunderBird FAQ actually does not make sense for a multi-platform mail
client. The FAQ features the question: "How do I install Mozilla
Thunderbird?" with the answer "For Windows, unzip the file into a folder
of your choosing. Launch thunderbird.exe." Thank you, immensely useful...
if you are one. Usually mozilla.org detects one's system type, but I
picked this info up using Firefox on Linux.
Anyway,
if you download the latest 1.0 version, you get a tar.gz file.
You should hit the terminal/command line - I believe it is Konsole in
Mandrake - and untar (=>unpack) the file with the command:
tar -zxvf thunderbird-1.0.tar.gz
This will create a thunderbird folder in the folder you unpack the file.
And, well, that's pretty much it. you can then run the ThunderBird executable
with the command:
./thunderbird
from within the folder. If you want to create a keyboard or toolbar
shortcut to it, it should simply point to this executable.
There is no installation into the system as such.
What you have now is basically a folder you can put anywhere. Example:
I downloaded it - I have a folder called /home/morten/downloads/ which is
my default FireFox download folder - and untarred it and came up with the
folder /home/morten/downloads/thunderbird/. In this case, if I wanted to
create a desktop/toolbar shortcut to it, I should link to the executable
"thunderbird", meaning the shortcut should point to
/home/morten/downloads/thunderbird/thunderbird. Also, in the untarred
thunderbird folder, there is a folder called icons, so you can get the
correct icon for your shortcut there. Now, I didn't really want it there.
One's e-mail client in the Download folder doesn't make sense... so I put
it in the /opt folder, which is the tradional folder for programs
not installed by default. I moved it as root (administrator/superuser), as
the normal user doesn't have permission to do this. Of course, you could
just create a /home/your_name/programs/ folder and put the thunderbird
folder in that. Where you put the program folder is not very important,
since it will look for or create a mail file in your Home directory. So if
the path is right, there is no problem.
The path to the mail file can be seen in ThunderBird at edit > account
settings > Local Folders.
Best of luck!
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