[Maverick] Thunderbird not installing Lightning calendar on AMD64 version

[sdavmor]

On 10/05/2010 10:30 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 22:13 -0700, sdavmor wrote:
>> Other than that annoying loss I'm very impressed with the
>> upgrade from Lucid to Maverick.  Anyone got any suggestions for
>> how to get the Lightning plugin to work?
>
> Did you install it from the repo: xul-ext-lightning  or did you
> download it? I suggest installing major addons like that from the
> repo that way if they don't work you can file a bug against them
> and let ubuntu know they need to be updated.

I tried both ways. The plugin installer indicates that it isd not yet
compatible with AMD64. Specifically I have learned that:

"A supported version of Lightning is currently not available for your
platform, but there may be a contributed version."

There is, but only for the 32bit version. I suppose I could backport
the version of TB I was running on Lucid and go from there with the
slightly older version of the plugin.

I'll post back with the result of doing that.
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