Thunderbird updates?

[NoOp]

On 01/04/2010 02:17 PM, Steve wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:11:35 -0000, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:59:47 -0000, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How are updates to Thunderbird handled in Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> I see that version 3 is out but don't see it in the package manager and
>>> the automatic updates is greyed out in preferences.
>>>
>>> Thanks,  Jim
>>>
>> It goes by it’s code name 'shredder'
>>
> 
> ...or you cna get the latest builds by adding the ppa, see
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa
> 

Or...
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Download & extract to a ~/thunderbird folder & then create an menu item
to run from there (/home/<username>/Thunderbird3/thunderbird/thunderbird
works just fine for me.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204
Lightning/1.0b1pre Thunderbird/3.0