Re: Installing Thunderbird

[Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>]

On 05/26/2014 12:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> On 05/26/2014 08:18 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> > Dear List -
> >
> > Will you please give me instructions how to install Thunderbird. I've 
> > tried multiple methods listed on the web to no avail.  I am not 
> > satisfied with Icedove; eg, never have been able to start from the 
> > desktop icon, inability to prevent it from running in the background, 
> > which makes it impossible to read my email from webmail, since 
> > icedove is set to remove the mail from the server after it is 
> > downloaded.
> >
> > Running Debian testing [Jessie] 64 bit system, and a POP3 email system.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Ethan
> All you need to do is untar the package from Mozilla to some place 
> that you have permissions to.  Then run the thunderbird executable in 
> the thunderbird-XX.X.X directory, which for me is currently 
> 'thunderbird-24.5.0'.
>
> Marc
Yes, I am replying to my own post.  It just occurred to me that when you 
untar thunderbird it does not create a versioned directory.  It just 
creates a 'thunderbird' directory.  I renamed the directory with the 
version number so that I would not be overwriting the previous version 
(in case something went wrong and I wanted to revert).  So, the path to 
the executable is:

/path-were-you-saved-the-tar-file/thunderbird/thunderbird

Marc