thunderbird is not being installed @ F7

[fyny]

ha...........friends,
i downloaded thunderbird-2.0.0.5-1.fc7.src.rpm. but the fact is that at the time of installing form root i am getting the result like below..........
root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -Uvh thunderbird-2.0.0.5-1.fc7.src.rpm
1:thunderbird ########################################### [100%]
using which command the result i am getting like below................
which thunderbird
/usr/bin/which: no thunderbird in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/banti/bin)

[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -q thunderbird
package thunderbird is not installed

can any one give me idea to solve this i mean to install it and run it....................?

[stevea]

You have the SOURCE rpm(....src.rpm) so you are only installing source code, probably under /usr/src/redhat/...

If you want to install the binary do "yum install thunderbird".

If you want to build a binary rpm from the source rpm, read the 'rpmbuild' manpage and scratch your head a lot.

[erinspice]

You're installing a src.rpm, so I believe it's just unpacking the source code and putting it in /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/ or something similar. I believe you still have to navigate to that directory, ./compile; make; make install.

Edit: Damn, you beat me too it!

[Judy]

I struggled to do the same thing today. Downloaded the tar.gz, tried to compile, make etc. etc. etc. Finally decided I was a complete idiot as far as this was concerned (yeah, OK - I am). There it was, happily sitting on my desktop and I just couldn't seem to extract and install the damn thing. Then, for reasons better known to anyone other than me, I decided to go to the package manager and do a search and voila! there it was! Followed all the requisite steps and I now have Thunderbird up and running and getting my e-mail with no problems. :) I only wish I could remember how I managed it so I could tell you. So sorry :( But good luck, and I hope it doesn't take you into the frustrations it took me before someone smiled on me :)
p.s. try the 'any' key - always works for me ;)

[fyny]

You're installing a src.rpm, so I believe it's just unpacking the source code and putting it in /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/ or something similar. I believe you still have to navigate to that directory, ./compile; make; make install.

Edit: Damn, you beat me too it!

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the tar files of thunderbird is available @ /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES............
tar files r thunderbird-2.0.0.5-source.tar.bz2 & thunderbird-langpacks-2.0.0.5-20070720.tar.bz2

but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
after upacking thunderbird-2.0.0.5-source.tar.bz2 a new file created named mozilla.............
i am displaying the contains of SOURCE.

[root@localhost SOURCES]# ls
find-external-requires
firefox-1.0-prdtoa.patch
firefox-1.1-uriloader.patch
firefox-1.5.0.10-nss-system-nspr.patch
firefox-1.5.0.10-with-system-nss.patch
firefox-1.5-bullet-bill.patch
firefox-1.5-dnd-nograb.patch
firefox-1.5-nopangoxft.patch
firefox-1.5-pango-cursor-position-more.patch
firefox-1.5-pango-cursor-position.patch
firefox-1.5-pango-justified-range.patch
firefox-1.5-pango-mathml.patch
firefox-1.5-pango-underline.patch
firefox-1.5-theme-change.patch
firefox-1.5-xft-rangewidth.patch
firefox-2.0.0.4-undo-uriloader.patch
firefox-2.0-link-layout.patch
firefox-2.0-pango-printing.patch
mozilla
thunderbird-0.7.3-gnome-uriloader.patch
thunderbird-0.7.3-psfonts.patch
thunderbird-1.1-software-update.patch
thunderbird-1.5-profile-migrator.patch
thunderbird-1.5-visibility.patch
thunderbird-2.0.0.5-source.tar.bz2
thunderbird-2.0-default-applications.patch
thunderbird.desktop
thunderbird-langpacks
thunderbird-langpacks-2.0.0.5-20070720.tar.bz2
thunderbird-mozconfig
thunderbird-mozconfig-branded
thunderbird-open-browser.sh
thunderbird.png
thunderbird-redhat-default-prefs.js
thunderbird.sh.in
xc284-scrollbmkdir.diff

[fyny]

[root@localhost thunderbird-langpacks]# ls
be.xpi de.xpi eu.xpi it.xpi mk.xpi pl.xpi sl.xpi
bg.xpi el.xpi fi.xpi ja.xpi nb-NO.xpi pt-BR.xpi sv-SE.xpi
ca.xpi en-GB.xpi fr.xpi ko.xpi nl.xpi pt-PT.xpi tr.xpi
cs.xpi es-AR.xpi ga-IE.xpi langpacks.txt nn-NO.xpi ru.xpi zh-CN.xpi
da.xpi es-ES.xpi hu.xpi lt.xpi pa-IN.xpi sk.xpi zh-TW.xpi

after entering into mozilla and using ./configure i am getting the following error message.................

checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 1.3.7... Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'gobject-2.0', required by 'GdkPixbuf', not found
configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 1.3.7) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

the requirements of mozilla of this version r ..........................,


*Linux
-The following library versions (or compatible) are
required: glibc 2.1, XFree86 3.3.x, GTK 1.2.x, Glib
1.2.x, Libstdc++ 2.9.0. Red Hat Linux 6.0,
Debian 2.1, and SuSE 6.2 (or later) installations
should work.
-Red Hat 6.x users who want to install the Mozilla
RPM must have at least version 4.0.2 of rpm
installed.
-Intel Pentium class processor (233 MHz or faster
recommended)
-64MB RAM
-26MB free hard disk space

where as my gtk+- version is above 2. because i am using f7...................

so,,,,,,,,,friends plz give me idea to install thunderbird-2.0.0.5-1.fc7