SwiftDeath Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocturnes Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted July 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 yeah for some reason..... mandrake makes that .thunderbird folder owned by root. At least on mine it did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 9, 2004 Report Share Posted September 9, 2004 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 I just did it from source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Blah, you're right, Adam. My fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 the source install was what i chose as well. pretty nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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