Getting Mozilla Thunderbird to work

[SwiftDeath]

I had this problem, but I solved it. First to get thunderbird to work in Mandrake Official 10.0, you must take these steps. I know most people use Kmail or Evoulotion, but I prefer Thunderbird for its sharp looks and junk-mail features.

 

1. Go into your favorite terminal.

2. Su into root

3. Type "Urpmi thunderbird"

4. Dl and let it install it self.

5. You'll notice when you try to run it won't work.

6. Type "Nautilus" or whatever you use to browse files.

7. Enable hidden files and folders to be seen.

8. Find .thunderbird

9. Change the user and group settings so that your user owns it, and not root.

10. Congratulations, your thunderbird should now work without logging into root.

 

I hope to help a struggling newbie with this guide. And good luck to all of you,

SwiftDeath

[nggalai]

In my case, it was enough to start thunderbird first as root, then as user. No chown needed. Thunderbird should install a .thunderbird folder in your home directory when first started.

 

93,

-Sascha.rb

Edited July 2, 2004 by nggalai

[nocturnes]

I did it simply by installing from source rather than the RPM - it meant that it did not need to change any permissions to get it to work

[SwiftDeath]

yeah for some reason..... mandrake makes that .thunderbird folder owned by root. At least on mine it did.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Here is how I did to make thunderbird (v. 0.7.3) running:

 

1. Download the urmpi

 

2. open the konsole

 

su

<type in your password>

cd /usr/bin

sh mozilla-thunderbird

 

 

Voilá ! B)

[spiedra]

I just did it from source.

[adamw]

artificial intelligence - that's the wrong solution. you should never run a normal app like thunderbird as root. Changing the badly created permissions is the correct solution.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Blah, you're right, Adam. My fault.

[JonEberger]

the source install was what i chose as well. pretty nice.