Installing Thunderbird

[vishnumrao]

I am trying to install Mozilla Thunderbird. I have downloaded the tar.gz file to my root home directory. as per instruction given at mozilla site "Extract the compressed archive and run thunderbird", I extracted it there
I ran thunderbird . the response was "bash: thunderbird: command not found". How do I resolve this.

Thanks.

[gavinw6662]

to install thunderbird, you should type the full path (where the thunderbird command is). By simply typing thunderbird, it assumes that the command is in /sbin/ or /usr/bin or any one of those directories. since you haven't official installed the program it isn't going to understand "thunderbird". So you need to throw the full command to it, like /path/to/thunderbird-directory/thunderbird. Hopefully that helps (better yet hope you understand it)

[vishnumrao]

I have the files in a user destop . I am able to install the files when i have the files in my root home. How do I install by logging as a user and install a program located at user home or user desktop.

Thanks.

[scottmuz]

You'd be better off installing thunderbird as an RPM via YUM or APT e.g (as root):
yum install thunderbird
OR apt-get install thunderbird
The RPM sets up all the links correctly for you in /usr/bin.

[biofuel]

Command required to run thunderbird 1.0 on a current Fedora Core 3. I've been running 0.9 on this particular system and it turns out TB 1.0 uses libstdc++-3.3.3-7.i386.rpm (libstdc++.so.5) but it looks like Fedora Core 3 ships with libstdc++-3.4.2-6.fc3.i386.rpm (libstdc++.so.6). I couldn't get 3.3.3-7 to install as long as 3.4.2 appeared to be on the system so I just removed 3.4.2 from the database installed the old version then

Get libstdc++-3.3.3-7.i386.rpm from a FC 2 distro <http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html>

Then install it

rpm -i --nodeps --force ~kkron/src/libstdc++-3.3.3-7.i386.rpm

Seems to be working fairly well so far.

[vishnumrao]

Thanks, I already installed thunderbird using yum. Thanks anyway.