Thunderbird 17.0.5 & FC17

[J.B. Wood]

Hello, everyone. I know Fedora 17 is on its last legs but I'm still
regularly getting yum updates, including the latest Firefox. For some
reason none of the online yum repos seem to have a 32-bit (i686)
Thunderbird 17.0.5 available, only 17.0.4 (has security issues). I've
only found 64-bit 17.0.5. Does anyone know of a 17.0.5 rpm for 32-bit
FC17? Thanks for your time and comment. Sincerely,
--
J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_1...@hotmail.com

[Kirk_Von_Rockstein]

On 2013-04-30, J.B. Wood <john...@nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> Hello, everyone. I know Fedora 17 is on its last legs but I'm still
> regularly getting yum updates, including the latest Firefox. For some
> reason none of the online yum repos seem to have a 32-bit (i686)
> Thunderbird 17.0.5 available, only 17.0.4 (has security issues). I've
> only found 64-bit 17.0.5. Does anyone know of a 17.0.5 rpm for 32-bit
> FC17? Thanks for your time and comment. Sincerely,

Try installing it manually via rpm -i <package name>
after downloading it from the fedora-18 repos. It may install with no problems.
http://pkgs.org/fedora-18/fedora-updates-i386/thunderbird-17.0.5-1.fc18.i686.rpm.html

The other option would be to download it from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/17.0.5/linux-i686/en-US/
CD into the directory you downloaded
the thunderbird-17.0.5.tar.bz2 file
via a root terminal and run
"tar jxvf thunderbird-17.0.5.tar.bz2"
Then from same root terminal run
"mv -v thunderbird /usr/local"
Make a new /usr/share/applications/thunderbird-17.0.5.desktop
file by running
"touch /usr/share/applications/thunderbird-17.0.5.desktop"
from same root term. Open the empty
/usr/share/applications/thunderbird-17.0.5.desktop
file in a editor like so from root terminal:
"kwrite /usr/share/applications/thunderbird-17.0.5.desktop"
(substitute kwrite for your editor of choice)
and paste contents below into the
/usr/share/applications/thunderbird-17.0.5.desktop file.
Save changes to the thunderbird-17.0.5.desktop file.
You may want to open the existing .desktop file on your system
for the currently installed thunderbird
and compare the Categories= line
and edit accordingly for your menu system on Fedora.


[Desktop Entry]
Name=Thunderbird Mail/News
Comment=Read/Write Mail/News with Thunderbird
GenericName=Mail Client
Exec=/usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/local/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default/default48.png
Categories=Network;Email;News;GTK;
MimeType=message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
StartupWMClass=thunderbird-bin
StartupNotify=true

You will have to edit panel icons etc. to reflect new path
to the new .desktop file or the thunderbird binary (script).

[Moe Trin]

On 1 May 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
<201305010...@0.0.0>, Kirk_Von_Rockstein wrote:

>J.B. Wood <john...@nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

>> I've only found 64-bit 17.0.5. Does anyone know of a 17.0.5 rpm
>> for 32-bit FC17?

>Try installing it manually via rpm -i <package name>
>after downloading it from the fedora-18 repos. It may install with no
>problems.

Then again - it may not. A better idea is to try it after reading the
man page for 'rpm' and discovering

--test Do not install the package, simply check for and report
potential conflicts.

and it will likely report conflicts with the already installed version.
A more correct suggestion would be

rpm -F --test <package name>

or

rpm -U --test <package name>

If that doesn't complain, repeat the command without the --test option
to actually do the upgrade. If you've already hosed the system,

--oldpackage
Allow an upgrade to replace a newer package with an
older one.

may be able to salvage things.

Old guy

[J.B. Wood]

On 04/30/2013 01:08 PM, J.B. Wood wrote:
> Hello, everyone. I know Fedora 17 is on its last legs but I'm still
> regularly getting yum updates, including the latest Firefox. For some
> reason none of the online yum repos seem to have a 32-bit (i686)
> Thunderbird 17.0.5 available, only 17.0.4 (has security issues). I've
> only found 64-bit 17.0.5. Does anyone know of a 17.0.5 rpm for 32-bit
> FC17? Thanks for your time and comment. Sincerely,

Hello, all and many thanks to the folks who supplied detailed responses
regarding subject. I was able to upgrade TB 17.0.4 17.0.5 using the
thunderbird-17.0.5-1.fc16.remi.i686.rpm package with no other dependent
packages needing to be updated. Sincerely,