Thunderbird 2.0?

NoOp glgxg at mfire.com
Tue May 22 16:31:39 UTC 2007


On 05/22/2007 07:40 AM, Lin wrote:
> Steve Flynn wrote:
>> On 22/05/07, *Lin* <chrisdev1981 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:chrisdev1981 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Can we manually install TB2.0? I thought Ubuntu should support
>>     this kind
>>     of installation . Correct me if I was wrong cos I am quite new on
>>     Ubuntu/Linux...
>>
>>
>> Yep - there's no problem with you getting the source from Mozilla and 
>> compiling it yourself.
>>
[snip]
> But can we download the binary version and run the install bin instead 
> of compiling the source code ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lin
> 

Yes, of course. There is no need to compile from source.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThunderbirdNewVersion

Note: I'd recommend that you backup your .mozilla-thunderbird profile
directory prior to installing.

Also; you can get it from the Ubuntu preview archives:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/PreviewArchives
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Packages







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