Unable to open tar.gz

[NoOp]

On 09/12/2007 07:05 AM, James Takac wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:17:06 Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 19:48 -0600, miner wrote:
>> > tar -xvfz thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz
>>
>> Are you trying to compile thunderbird from sources? What for?
> 
> That's a good point. Tis already in the repos so can be installed from 
> synaptic
> 
> James
> 

Actually it is not, unless you are running Gutsy:

<http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=mozilla-thunderbird&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all>

Package mozilla-thunderbird

    * dapper (mail): Mozilla Thunderbird standalone mail client
      1.5.0.13-0ubuntu0.6.06: amd64 i386 powerpc
      1.5.0.2-0ubuntu2: amd64 i386 powerpc
    * edgy (mail): Mozilla Thunderbird standalone mail client
      1.5.0.13-0ubuntu0.6.10: amd64 i386 powerpc
      1.5.0.7-0ubuntu1: amd64 i386 powerpc
    * feisty (mail): Mozilla Thunderbird standalone mail client
      1.5.0.13-0ubuntu0.7.04: amd64 i386 powerpc
      1.5.0.10-0ubuntu3: amd64 i386 powerpc
    * gutsy (mail): Transition package for mozilla-thunderbird rename
      2.0.0.6-0ubuntu2: all

<http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=thunderbird>

Package Search Results

You have searched for packages named thunderbird in all distributions,
all sections, and all architectures.

Found 1 matching packages, displaying package 1.
Package thunderbird

    * gutsy (web): mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter
support
      2.0.0.6-0ubuntu2: amd64 i386 powerpc


For the OP: follow the instructions in the "Manual instructions for
installing the newest Thunderbird (32-bit only)" section starting from
'Extract the zipped archive'. Just be sure to change the version from
2.0.0.5 to 2.0.0.6 in the commands. Example:

from the page:
sudo tar -C /opt -zxvf thunderbird-2.0.0.5.tar.gz

change to:
sudo tar -C /opt -zxvf thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz

You can find scripts to automate the install on that same page.