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

[Rimu Atkinson]

surely suse has a package management system you could use, which would 
automate the installation??

R

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
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave Crosby
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> Wayne Koorts wrote:
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>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> What sort of problems are you having?  Please describe the process you 
>> used to download and install the software and let us know what snags you 
>> encountered along the way.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wayne
>>
>> Dave Crosby wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I run a dual boot box, Windows and Suse 10.2.  I wish to move all
>> operations to Linux and am attempting to do so.  However I wish to use
>> thunderbird as my email client and am having difficulty in installing
>> the 2006 version.
>>
>> Does anybody have any suggestions or word of advice?
>>
>> Cheers
>>     
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