Upgrading Thunderbird to 1.0 via Synaptic?

[Ed Fletcher]

Matt Philmon wrote:
>>From basically the same source, except it's in staging:
> 
> deb http://ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net/ubuntu warty-backports-staging main
> universe
> 
> Matt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ed Fletcher
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:57 AM
> To: Ubuntu Users
> Subject: Upgrading Thunderbird to 1.0 via Synaptic?
> 
> Senectus <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I'm not sure if this was mentioned before or not.. but there is a much 
>>easier way to do this.. use the backports project..
>>add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb 
>>http://ubuntu-bp.sourceforge.net/ubuntu warty-backports main universe
>>
>>then update and upgrade though either apt-get or synaptic..
> 
> 
> This was from a thread about upgrading Firefox to 1.0 using apt or synaptic.
> I used this and it worked perfectly.  I'd also like to upgrade Thunderbird
> to 1.0 as well.  Does anyone know if Thunderbird has been backported to
> Warty?  Or is there another easy way to get Thunderbird 1.0 on my system?

(I'm cc'ing the mailing list since others will probably want this 
information.)

Many thanks Matt.  That worked.  I now have Thunderbird 1.0 running.

Download was normal but I had to confirm the installs.  Is that because 
they came from staging and might not be ready for prime time?

Anyway, seems to work OK so far.

Ed
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