installing thunderbird

[David M. Morton]

At 08:17 PM 6/30/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>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?
>>>|
>>>
>>>
>>>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
>
>
>Oops.  That was supposed to be .gz instead of .tz in step 4.  Sorry.






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