Thunderbird 0.9 for Ubuntu?

[Travis Newman]

Christoph Georgi wrote:

> I don't quite get what you mean with "install". I just downloaded the 
> Thunderbird package and unzipped it to /opt. Then run ./thunderbird 
> and there it was?! Is that all?

Yeah that's all :) The Mozilla programs are precious few that come 
precompiled.

>
> Concerning the links you mean you did a ln and pointed the "plugins" 
> folder in /opt/firefox to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins...
>
yes, symlinks. You'll grow to love them :)

> Just seems a bit too easy as I'm used to the ./configure, make, 
> make-install way of installing things to linux ;)
>
Yeah it's handy isn't it :) Again, Mozilla stuff comes precompiled.