thunderbird install

[John Lagrue]

Jon Savage wrote:

>>I am guessing that you downloaded a .tar.gz file for thunderbird? Not
>>sure how you tried to install it, but if you can get an rpm (RedHat
>>Package Manager) file to install from, that is always preferable. With
>>rpm. you can upgrade a package (rpm -Uvh packagename.rpm), or remove it
>>(rpm -e packagename), etc. With a .tar.gz file, you have to manually
>>keep track of where everything gets installed.
>>
>>That said, the answer is 'yes' to your question about using apt-get. I
>>don't use apt-get myself, but I do use yum and up2date. In the case of
>>thunderbird, though, I have not found an rpm (maybe I have just not
>>looked in the right place).  So, don't be surprised if apt-get does not
>>find the thunderbird rpm.
>>
>>There is a good howto on building your own thunderbird rpm at:
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>>
>
>There are rpms available for both Firefox & Thunderbird- If memore
>serves on Fedora Extras from fedora.us
>  
>
Is there? I can't find it. All I have is version 0.6 which is old now. 
Does anyone know where a FFC2 rpm is for version 0.8?

JDL