installing thunderbird

[David M. Morton]

At 10:36 PM 6/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote:
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>>James Lawrence wrote:
>>| i'm trying to install thunderbird as my mail client.  mozilla;'s web
>>| page say for all other OS versions," run thunderbird ". well i have a
>>| problem with that, since it isn't packaged as a rpm, can't just "run"
>>| it. right?   or is there a cmd that i don't know about?
>>|
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>>Just unpack and run thunderbird. I'm using it with no problems in my fc2
>>box.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
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>what do you mean unpack and run either gui or cmd line, doesn't it need ro 
>be installed into certain folders ?
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Try this from a command line:

1. Make a subdirectory to hold the installed program.

     mkdir tb_holder

2. Copy or move the file you get from Mozilla into the subdirectory that 
you just made.

3. Change to the above subdirectory.

     cd tb_holder

4. Next decompress the tar file.

     gunzip thunderbird....tar.tz

    You have to put the right stuff in place of the ... in the above.

5. Finally,

     tar xfv thunderbird....tar

    Same thing with the ... part.

This should give you a program named "thunderbird" so that you can now enter

     thunderbird

to run it.  If it isn't in the subdirectory name tb_holder (or whatever you 
chose to call it), then it's probably in a subdirectory of that one.

Dave