How to install Thunderbird3

[NoOp]

On 12/10/2009 08:10 PM, Scott wrote:
> On 09-12-10 10:31 PM, Mani wrote:
>> I am new to Ubuntu(Just installed and trying to locate software). And
>> this is the first time I am working (with a serious intent) on Linux. I
>> am not able to find new releases of Netbeans and Thunderbird in the
>> UBuntu Software center or the Synaptic package manager. Does it take
>> some time for new versions of software or new software to appear in
>> these centers?
> Software is normally updated with each six month release.  You can use 
> backports (unsupported updates), but they only support certain software 
> and is usually a little bit behind.
> 
> For Thunderbird check out 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThunderbirdNewVersion.  Take a look at 
> Manual instructions for installing the newest Thunderbird.  It mentions 
> version 2, but works just as good for version 3 as it mentions.  I just 
> did that myself today and it worked fine for me on Ubuntu 9.10.

For others, that are not interested in ppa's (which are, afterall ppa's:
Personal Package Archives and are subject to go away at the ppa
maintainer's whim (Ubuntu OOo is a prime example)[1], or ubuntuzilla,
I'd simply recommend that you download the latest version from
mozilla.org, extract to a home folder, and run from there. No
root/superuser issues, no cluttering up system folders, and no issues in
obtaining updates when they become available from mozilla. No added
Ubuntu add-in's (like the Firefox Google issue).

Creating an Applications|Internet|Thunderbird3 (or SeaMonkey or Firefox)
launcher is considerably easier than going through all the
aforementioned suggestions.

I seldom use Thunderbird, except for testing (I use SeaMonkey), but
firing up Thunderbird3 from a home folder, checking the version:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091130
Lightning/1.0b1pre Thunderbird/3.0
and updating via the Help|Check for updates
pulls in the most recent update and now shows:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204
Lightning/1.0b1pre Thunderbird/3.0

Doesn't get much simpler than that.

If anyone is wondering about the 'Lightning/1.0b1pre', it simply a
test/prerelease version of the Lightning Calendar from the nightlies
that works remarkably well in both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

Thunderbird et al are available here:
http://www.mozilla.org/
  http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

[1] Now who would have thought that a ppa by the primary maintainer of
Ubuntu's OpenOffice.org would have simply deleted his ppa archives?
https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive/ppa
<quote>
Empty for now, will likely have OOo 3.2.0/3.2.1 debs for Karmic/Lucid
later in the cycle.
If you want OOo 3.1.1 upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic).
Also has OOo 3.1.1 debs for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) - unsupported.
</quote>
Also see:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/267376?comments=all>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/267376/comments/153>
Use PPA's at your own risk. They have very useful purposes; but like any
other unsupported repository, they also have their risks. Just be aware
of those risks.