Thunderbird 0.9 for Ubuntu?

[Christoph Georgi]

After installing the firefox, my bookmarks and everything were already 
imported. I assume, the firefoxPR is using the same folder in /home as 
the firefox version which shipps with ubuntu.
Now, can I remove the Thunderbird/Firefox packages which ship with 
Ubuntu? I reckon Firefox should not be completely removed (purge) as I 
need the .mozilla-firefox folder. But other then that...? Or do the new 
versions need some stuff that comes with the older packages?

Christoph

@zerohalo: if you want to keep all your settings and emails, don't 
bother with the symlinks.. just rename the .mozilla-thunderbird folder 
to .thunderbird in your home directory, as 0.9 looks in .thunderbird. 
That's it.


Travis Newman wrote:
> 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.
> 
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