After I installed ubuntu 7.10, I downloaded and tried
to install thunderbird.2.0.0.14.tar.gz
I think the installer did it's job.
Not sure which executable to run, but the only two
that try to run indicate that libstdc++.so.5 is missing.

I have tried to google for
"simple step-by-step thunderbird installation"
but I have failed to find it.
QUESTION1: is there a simple thunderbird installation?

In my previous installation, there existed
/home/ccashion/.thunderbird
QUESTION2: Would running setup create this
subdirectory and the associated profile?
QUESTION3: What is the name of the setup?

Thank you,
Charles

Thunderbird is part of Ubuntu distribution and should be downloaded
from the repository where the rest ofubuntu resides.

you need to open Programs/Accessories/terminal

and type

sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird

You can do the same thing by starting System/Administration/Synaptic
package manager and searching for Thunderbird there.

i

On 2008-07-21, charles cashion <cmc75074@verizon.net> wrote:
> After I installed ubuntu 7.10, I downloaded and tried
> to install thunderbird.2.0.0.14.tar.gz
> I think the installer did it's job.
> Not sure which executable to run, but the only two
> that try to run indicate that libstdc++.so.5 is missing.
>
> I have tried to google for
> "simple step-by-step thunderbird installation"
> but I have failed to find it.
> QUESTION1: is there a simple thunderbird installation?
>
> In my previous installation, there existed
> /home/ccashion/.thunderbird
> QUESTION2: Would running setup create this
> subdirectory and the associated profile?
> QUESTION3: What is the name of the setup?
>
> Thank you,
> Charles

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charles cashion wrote:
> After I installed ubuntu 7.10, I downloaded and tried
> to install thunderbird.2.0.0.14.tar.gz
> I think the installer did it's job.
> Not sure which executable to run, but the only two
> that try to run indicate that libstdc++.so.5 is missing.
>
> I have tried to google for
> "simple step-by-step thunderbird installation"
> but I have failed to find it.
> QUESTION1: is there a simple thunderbird installation?
>
> In my previous installation, there existed
> /home/ccashion/.thunderbird
> QUESTION2: Would running setup create this
> subdirectory and the associated profile?
> QUESTION3: What is the name of the setup?
>
> Thank you,
> Charles

You can find T-Bird in Applications / Add/Remove.

Alias

charles cashion wrote:
> After I installed ubuntu 7.10, I downloaded and tried
> to install thunderbird.2.0.0.14.tar.gz
> I think the installer did it's job.
> Not sure which executable to run, but the only two
> that try to run indicate that libstdc++.so.5 is missing.
>
> I have tried to google for
> "simple step-by-step thunderbird installation"
> but I have failed to find it.
> QUESTION1: is there a simple thunderbird installation?
>
> In my previous installation, there existed
> /home/ccashion/.thunderbird
> QUESTION2: Would running setup create this
> subdirectory and the associated profile?
> QUESTION3: What is the name of the setup?
>
> Thank you,
> Charles

apt/synaptic.

i,
good info.
It worked! THANKS!
Now I have a new problem.
Everytime I bring up the address book,
Thunderbird crashes.

The reason I installed ubuntu was because FC4
kept crashing. FC4 crashed at unpredictable times.
Now... ubuntu 7.10 crashes when I open Thunderbird
and access the address book.

I have searched alt.os.linux.ubuntu to see if this
is a known problem (no luck). I wonder if I could
catch this bugger in the act and ... and ... what?

My alternative is to run memory diagnostics and
cpu diagnostics and hard drive diagnostics. and you
get the picture.I am hoping that this desktop is
still ok if I fix one thing.
Charles

Ignoramus14558 wrote:
> Thunderbird is part of Ubuntu distribution and should be downloaded
> from the repository where the rest ofubuntu resides.
>
> you need to open Programs/Accessories/terminal
>
> and type
>
> sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird
>
> You can do the same thing by starting System/Administration/Synaptic
> package manager and searching for Thunderbird there.
>
> i
>
> On 2008-07-21, charles cashion <cmc75074@verizon.net> wrote:
>> After I installed ubuntu 7.10, I downloaded and tried
>> to install thunderbird.2.0.0.14.tar.gz
>> I think the installer did it's job.
>> Not sure which executable to run, but the only two
>> that try to run indicate that libstdc++.so.5 is missing.
>>
>> I have tried to google for
>> "simple step-by-step thunderbird installation"
>> but I have failed to find it.
>> QUESTION1: is there a simple thunderbird installation?
>>
>> In my previous installation, there existed
>> /home/ccashion/.thunderbird
>> QUESTION2: Would running setup create this
>> subdirectory and the associated profile?
>> QUESTION3: What is the name of the setup?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Charles
>

On 2008-07-22, charles cashion <cmcnuz@dunjas.com> wrote:
> i,
> good info.
> It worked! THANKS!
> Now I have a new problem.
> Everytime I bring up the address book,
> Thunderbird crashes.

Did you install any system libraries from any websites, as part of
your attempt to do a DIY Thunderbird install? Would it be correct to
say that you never installed anything? Or did you install something
(outside of package manager, that is)

please clarify


i


> The reason I installed ubuntu was because FC4
> kept crashing. FC4 crashed at unpredictable times.
> Now... ubuntu 7.10 crashes when I open Thunderbird
> and access the address book.
>
> I have searched alt.os.linux.ubuntu to see if this
> is a known problem (no luck). I wonder if I could
> catch this bugger in the act and ... and ... what?
>
> My alternative is to run memory diagnostics and
> cpu diagnostics and hard drive diagnostics. and you
> get the picture.I am hoping that this desktop is
> still ok if I fix one thing.
> Charles
>
> Ignoramus14558 wrote:
>> Thunderbird is part of Ubuntu distribution and should be downloaded
>> from the repository where the rest ofubuntu resides.
>>
>> you need to open Programs/Accessories/terminal
>>
>> and type
>>
>> sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird
>>
>> You can do the same thing by starting System/Administration/Synaptic
>> package manager and searching for Thunderbird there.
>>
>> i
>>
>> On 2008-07-21, charles cashion <cmc75074@verizon.net> wrote:
>>> After I installed ubuntu 7.10, I downloaded and tried
>>> to install thunderbird.2.0.0.14.tar.gz
>>> I think the installer did it's job.
>>> Not sure which executable to run, but the only two
>>> that try to run indicate that libstdc++.so.5 is missing.
>>>
>>> I have tried to google for
>>> "simple step-by-step thunderbird installation"
>>> but I have failed to find it.
>>> QUESTION1: is there a simple thunderbird installation?
>>>
>>> In my previous installation, there existed
>>> /home/ccashion/.thunderbird
>>> QUESTION2: Would running setup create this
>>> subdirectory and the associated profile?
>>> QUESTION3: What is the name of the setup?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Charles
>>

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charles cashion <cmcnuz@dunjas.com> wrote:
> i,
> good info.
> It worked! THANKS!
> Now I have a new problem.
> Everytime I bring up the address book,
> Thunderbird crashes.

Did you install Thunderbird after downloading it from the thunderbird
homepage? If so, where did you install it? Under /opt/thunderbird?

What's the output of

dpkg -s thunderbird

?

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Ignoramus14558 illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> Thunderbird is part of Ubuntu distribution and should be downloaded
> from the repository where the rest ofubuntu resides.
>
> you need to open Programs/Accessories/terminal
>
> and type
>
> sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird

There's no advantage to running aptitude anymore. Apt-get has caught
up. It manages dependencies as well (some say better) than aptitude.

In fact, aptitude is about to be marked as depracated.

So the best way of installing is
Open a terminal and type
$ sudo apt-get install thunderbird.

This will at least keep you "current" with the proper ubuntu way and
not some advice based on dapper drake.

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