Why no Thunderbird???

[cavin1]

For reasons I will not go into here I had to reinstall T.Bird. Went through the usual of download, unpack, click on the t.bird icon in the t.bird folder. No starty!!!! Tried all I can think of but aparently I can't think either!!! Can someone please advise what's going wrong, BTW this is the way I always inetall T.Bird ??? Help would be appreciated regards, Des Cavin

[brebs]

Run it from a terminal prompt, then you'll hopefully get an error message.

[cavin1]

Did so - - no useful message ??

[marko]

Why are you installing the tarball instead of using the software installer?
Thunderbird is a standard packaged app in the fedora system:

yum install thunderbird
or use yumex or packagekit or whatever....

[cavin1]

Originally Posted by marko

Why are you installing the tarball instead of using the software installer?
Thunderbird is a standard packaged app in the fedora system:

yum install thunderbird
or use yumex or packagekit or whatever....

Merko et al,
the reason is simple sometimes the brain thinks it it entitled to a day ooff just 'cos it's Saturday. Me and my dome nee to have a heart to heart !!! thanks all, I am OK nowwwwwwwwwwww.......

[marko]

One thing is that the Fedora thunderbird package in F9 is one iteration behind, I think it's version
2.0.0.16 while the one in the mozilla web site is 2.0.0.17. So if you want the latest you have to do the 'tarball' install.

I then looked at the thunderbird on mozilla's site, all I could find was the 32bit version, are you using 32 bit Fedora or 64? I had problems running the 32bit one on my Fedora 9 installation which is 64 bit. It should work because the 64bit OS can also run 32bit apps but I just don't have all the various 32bit libraries setup.

BTW, when in post 3 you said no useful message how did you run it:

./thunderbird while in the directory where "thunderbird" is
thunderbird while in the directory where "thunderbird" is
or
thunderbird in some other directory ?

[cavin1]

[QUOTE=marko;1098616]One thing is that the Fedora thunderbird package in F9 is one iteration behind, I think it's version
2.0.0.16 while the one in the mozilla web site is 2.0.0.17. So if you want the latest you have to do the 'tarball' install.

I then looked at the thunderbird on mozilla's site, all I could find was the 32bit version, are you using 32 bit Fedora or 64? I had problems running the 32bit one on my Fedora 9 installation which is 64 bit. It should work because the 64bit OS can also run 32bit apps but I just don't have all the various 32bit libraries setup.

BTW, when in post 3 you said no useful message how did you run it:

./thunderbird while in the directory where "thunderbird" is
thunderbird while in the directory where "thunderbird" is
or
thunderbird in some other directory ?




''thunderbird' from another directory, and also from same directory.BTW this is hard my keyboard
has decided to quit 'single keystrokes.It works only in repeat key mode Thanks for your patience with my sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow typing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[marko]

'thunderbird' from another directory, and also from same directory.

Ok, just remember that if you're in a different directory, the application won't start unless the directory of the program is on the 'path'

But if not being on the path was the problem it would show an error:

"command not found"

You can list the path contents anytime with:

echo $PATH
or
echo $path

the sure way to run a program in the current directory is to prepend a dot:

./thunderbird

otherwise "thunderbird" would only work if the dot "." directory was on your path:

echo $path
/sbin /usr/bin /bin .

All this stuff is why it's so much more recommended to just use the Fedora package, it would put thunderbird in the standard place so everything would just work.