On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 06/19/2010 07:59 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> I see that Thunderbird 3.1 RC2 is in the rawhide repository. When >>> Thunderbird 3.1 is release, will it become part of Fedora 13 or will it >>> be held until Fedora 14? >>> >>> It appears that 3.1 is faster and more reliable than 3.0.4. >>> >> >> Unlikely. Newer versions of Mozilla apps typically require major new >> versions of XULRunner as well and since there are many apps using >> XUlRunner, Fedora typically does not update to a major version of >> Firefox or Thunderbird in a existing release. > > Even though it may not be planned as a provided rpm for f13 it is > actually pretty easy to install Thunderbird 3.1 of any version > yourself and run it. > > What you do is the following: > Make yourself a directory where you will hold the application - eg in > my case it is /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/ but you can choose anywhere > you like. > Then download the tarball of the version you are interested in - for example: > http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.1rc2/linux-i686/en-GB/thunderbird-3.1rc2.tar.bz2 > > As root cd to the storage directory you have chosen, and move the file > to the directory where you want to store it, and use the tar command > to uncompress the tarball. I forgot a couple of details here - use tar jxf thunderbird-3.1rc2.tar.bz2 in this case.... > > Then you will have a directory such as in my case: /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/ Slight correction: in my case: /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/thunderbird > What I do is to rename that directory to one with the date appended so the directory name is /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/thunderbird-3.1-100619 > Then I make a symlink to that calling it simply thunderbird by doing: > ln -s thunderbird-3.1-100619 thunderbird after first cd'ing to the directory /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird > > So now /opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/thunderbird is a link to the > directory containing the files for this new version of Thunderbird. > The reason for doing this is that you can download newer versions and > keep the original directory - so later you may then have > thunderbird-3.1-100630 for example and then remove the link and relink > to the newer directory - the rest will then work without the need to > do any other changes - and if the newer version has a problem then > merely removing the link and remaking it to the original directory > will then get you back to where you were. > > Then I create a standard script file that uses the application by > creating a file called thunderbird in /opt/Local/bin (but you could > put it anywhere you like) > That file contains: > #!/bin/sh > TDIR=/opt/Local/vers/thunderbird/thunderbird > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$TDIR > exec $TDIR/thunderbird > > I make an icon on the desktop, of type application, that calls this > file as a command - i.e. the command is /opt/Local/bin/thunderbird > > Make sure that you keep a copy of the your Thunderbird profile in > .thunderbird in your user area in case there are problems going from a > very old version of thunderbird to the new one. > > Double click on the new icon and this new version of Thunderbird > should fire up and run. > > I have been using the latest nightly versions of thunderbird 3.1 for a > very long time and it works without any problems for me. > > I hope this helps. > > > -- > mike c > -- mike c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
