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larrychisholm@comcast.net
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I am trying to add thunderbird. I am running Mandriva 2005LE

I log in as SU

do a tar -xzvf /home/larry/thunderbird -----------

then it unzipps

I then cd to thunderbird

then do a ./thunderbird

but when I try to run it with the command /home/larry/thunderbird/thunderbird

 

it comes up with all of the question windows to set up the e-mail account

and if you set it up then of cours when you try to run it again it comes back with the same questions

again and in the background it shows the e mail along with all of the mail in the inbox

 

where did I go wrong during the installation.

 

Thank You

Larry

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If you get a bunch of replies its because its the first time I have used this system

 

Do you know the command to issue in a terminal to delete a program?

I got the rpm downloaded and I had deleted the folders in my /home/larry

bot now it says that it is already installed?

I did a new re install of 2005le and it cannot be there

Thank You

Larry

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humm, maybe try installing it through urpmi (there is a thunderbird .rpm in contrib or main)

duno, just a suggestion, it works fine both ways for me

 

I recommend the urpmi approach to. Thunderbird is very well behaved. I even blew my whole hard disk away, reinstalled Mandriva from scratch, restored my user home directory from backup, then reinstalled thunderbird using urpmi.

 

The first time I started Thunderbird after this, it came up fully configured with all my accounts and old email all there.

 

That's impressive (too me :-) )

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Thunderbird and firefox put all user settings to /home/<user>/.mozilla directory. It is normally hidden, you can't see it in file manager unless you set it to show hidden files. Open terminal nad type in the command prompt

$ cd ~/.mozilla
$ ls

You should see a few directories in there, one of them is where thunderbird keeps its stuff including settings and mail directories. On my box the diresctory has the same name as my thunderbird account. Apparently it creates a separate dir per account. If you wish to wipe off all traces of thunderbird from your system, don't forget to delete those files (your mail will be lost too, copy/move it over elsewhere). If you have not done that, after re-install thunderbird will use all your previous settings.

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