[wellylug] Difficulties with thunderbird installation in a Suse 10.2 box

[Jonathan Harker]

Dave Crosby wrote:
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> Hi Wayne
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> - From the t/b site I downloaded the tar.gz file
> made a directory in /usr/local  and named it Thunderbird into which I
> moved tar.gz file
> I then uncompressed using the gunzip cmnd
> Extracted with the tar -xvf cmnd
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> after this I then read the Readme.txt file which pointed to a web page
> of getthunderbird.com/releases
> I was redirected to Mozilla Europe and the release notes.
> I could not find any installation instructions in the extracted files.
> 
> Trust this helps, what I'm looking for are installation instr's

This is not a good way to install thunderbird on Suse.

Suse has its own packages for installing Thunderbird which should be 
available in whatever Suse uses for package management these days - 
Yast2 last time I looked. Should be in a menu somewhere "install 
software" or some such.

The RPM you want to install is MozillaThunderbird

J