larrychisholm@comcast.net Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrychisholm@comcast.net Posted September 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 I had downloaded from the mozilla site and probably too new a release so I did download the rpm deleted the folders but now it tells me it is already installed is there a command to use in the terminal window to delete a program/// Thank You Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrychisholm@comcast.net Posted September 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 (edited) the command is "urpme" "urpmi" for install, "urpme" for uninstall what do you get when you type "mozilla-thunderbird" in terminal? Edited September 17, 2005 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffrr Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 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 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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 :-) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted September 18, 2005 Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrychisholm@comcast.net Posted September 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2005 Thanks to everyone for the help on Thunderbird. I found a site www rpm org and finally made a list of the various commands and got it all cleaned up. I had a rpm that I downloaded from the mandriva site so I knew that it was good for 2005LE. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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