installing thunderbird

[James Lawrence]

David M. Morton wrote:

> At 08:17 PM 6/30/2004 -0700, you wrote:
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>> At 10:36 PM 6/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>>> |
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>>>>
>>>> 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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thAT did the trick (never played with gunzip) can i export mt account 
setting from mozilla mail to thunderbird?