There is a nightly ppa for Thunderbird. <div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 16, 2012 2:12 PM, "NoOp" <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 04/15/2012 06:25 AM, Graham Watkins wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm getting a nagging message on Thunderbird telling me to upgrade to > the latest version as the one I'm using will soon no longer be > supported. 狢've downloaded the tarball for 11.01 from Mozilla but I am > filled with foreboding. Is it safe to install this over the top of my > existing Thunderbird installation or am I likely to trash something > and/or lose all my mail? > > Might it be safer to leave things alone until I decide to upgrade my > entire system? 狢'm using Ubuntu 10.4. ... Ubuntu are doing users a disservice by not upgrading Thunderbird: <<a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=thunderbird" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=thunderbird</a>> Note that it is not only the 10.04 LTS that they've not upgraded, but also natty (11.04 - which is still supported until October). Were I you I'd file a bug report and demand an upgrade as Mozilla stopped all support (including security patches) for TB 3.1 this month: <<a href="http://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2012/01/31/using-thunderbird-3-1-its-time-for-a-change/" target="_blank">http://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2012/01/31/using-thunderbird-3-1-its-time-for-a-change/</a>> <<a href="https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/upgrading-thunderbird-31" target="_blank">https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/upgrading-thunderbird-31</a>> TB 3.x isn't even on the 'Extended Support' downloads page: <<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/organizations/all-esr.html" target="_blank">https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/organizations/all-esr.html</a>> <<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/organizations/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/organizations/index.html</a>> Personally, I've blown out all bits of "Ubuntu Mozilla" (Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Firefox, Lightning) and only run the tarballs from Mozilla directly. That way I am certain to get all security patches, and updates/upgrades at the same time the rest of the world does. $ locate thunderbird-bin /home/<user>/Thunderbird/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin $ locate firefox-bin /home/<user>/FirefoxNightly/firefox/firefox-bin /home/<user>/firefox/firefox/firefox-bin $ locate seamonkey-bin /home/<user>/seamonkey/seamonkey/seamonkey-bin Read <<a href="https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/upgrading-thunderbird-31" target="_blank">https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/upgrading-thunderbird-31</a>> - particularly "1. Backup your Thunderbird Data" (you can skip step #2). Extract to a home folder (e.g. 'thunderbird'), point your menu to the thunderbird shell (not the thunderbird-bin - I only used that in the locate example as it's easy to find/display): /home/<user>/Thunderbird/thunderbird/thunderbird and off you go. [The recent debacle with Macintosh not updating their Java when the security update was released in February, is an example of what can happen when package maintainers sit on their thumbs & spin...] -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>