UbuntuHelp:ThunderbirdNewVersion

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Installing "Old" Thunderbird from Ubuntu repositories

If you don't mind having the slightly older version of Thunderbird (don't worry--it still gets security patches within a week or two), you can use the one available through the repositories. Just paste this command into the terminal:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird

Installing the newest version of Thunderbird from Mozilla

This is designed to help you use newer versions of the Mozilla Thunderbird than those available from the Ubuntu repositories.

At present, version 1.5 of Thunderbird is the latest version available for Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) in the repositories. Newer versions contain some new features and immediate security patches.

Notes

• Many extensions may be incompatible with newer versions.
• You may be able to use extensions marked as incompatible using the Nightly Tester Tools extension.
• This is loosely based on/inspired by the FirefoxNewVersion HowTo
• In some cases (e.g. Thunderbird crashes because of SCIM, InputMethods/SCIM), you might consider compile the source code directly, see CompileThunderbirdNewVersion

Automated script to install the newest Thunderbird

The Ubuntuzilla project maintains an automated script that backs up your Thunderbird profile if you have one, locates and downloads the latest Thunderbird release, allows you to select a locale, verifies download integrity with Mozilla Software Releases GPG signature, and installs Thunderbird to /opt/thunderbird with all the proper symlinks in /usr/bin.

In other words, it does everything this step-by-step tutorial does and more... but with less copying and pasting and more error checking.

Detailed usage instructions and more information are available on Ubuntuzilla project site.

If you run into any problems with this script, or have feature requests, comments, suggestions, please feel free to post on the Ubuntuzilla project forum, now officially hosted on the Ubuntu forums in the 3rd Party Projects area.

Manual instructions for installing the newest Thunderbird

Moving your current Thunderbird mail into the new location for Thunderbird

• These versions of Thunderbird are configured to look in ~/.thunderbird for your profile data and settings, unlike the package from Synaptic which is set up to look in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. So if you've currently got a profile, copy it to ~/.thunderbird. (If you're installing from scratch, you can skip this step). Paste these commands into the terminal:

cd
cp -r .mozilla-thunderbird .thunderbird

• Copying rather than moving is recommended: this preserves your old settings as a backup, and ensures that you can continue to use the stable version while using/testing the newer versions. The two directories can coexist without a problem.

Installing instructions for newest Thunderbird

Download the gzipped tarball for version you want to install

As of this writing, the latest version is 2.0.0.0

wget -c http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-2.0.0.0.tar.gz

Extract the zipped archive

sudo tar -C /opt -zxvf thunderbird-2.0.0.0.tar.gz

Make launcher command available to all users

sudo dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird.ubuntu --rename /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird
sudo ln -s /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird
sudo ln -s /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird

This "divert" business allows you to still run the old Thunderbird version using the command

mozilla-thunderbird.ubuntu

Running the new Thunderbird

• You can now launch the new version with your old profile from the command-line. By running:

thunderbird

• If you decided to use `thunderbird` from the command line, you may need to adjust the properties of your Gnome panel & menu launchers accordingly. To modify Gnome panel launchers right click and select Properties. Then change the old command to the new command if you changed it from mozilla-thunderbird to thunderbird. To change your link in the Applications menu, use Applications > System Tools > Application Menu Editor. This lets you use the official icons if you've gone through the trouble of updating them (see the Unofficial Ubuntu Guide).
• Should you need it, the Thunderbird profile manager can still be accessed via:

thunderbird -P

Install dictionaries

To install dictionaries in the new Thunderbird you need to run it as superuser.

• First, download the desired dictionaries from http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html
• Just to be on the safe site, make a backup of your mail and settings:

cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird-backup

• 1. 3 Then start

sudo -H thunderbird

• 1. 4 Ignore all the import and account setups, go to the extension manager, install the dictionaries.
• Close Thunderbird
• Start it as regular user, et voila.

Problems

New Account Setup Wizard comes up

It seems that some people are having problems with the "New Account Setup Wizard" coming up when it is not supposed to. The workaround that people have found is to rename the .thunderbird folder, re-setup your account and then copy back your mail.

Here's how:

• Go to your home folder in the File Manager.
• Click "View->Show Hidden Files"
• Find the ".thunderbird" folder and rename it to something like ".thunderbird-backup"
• Try re-running Thunderbird and reset up your account and see if things work.
• You can copy back mail from your .thunderbird-backup folder into your .thunderbird folder.

"(QFA)Talkback error: Can't initialize." error

I'm pretty sure it is safe to just ignore this error.

Still having problems?

Post your questions in : the Ubuntu Forums and we will try to help you.

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