Shredder on Ubuntu

[Alan Calcutt]

Hello,

I am new to Ubuntu and I am interested in installing Shredder, but so far I have been unsuccessful. I have looked at the Ubuntu web site, the Thunderbird web site and I have also done a internet search. So far I have not found the information I need. I was wondering if someone on this list could either share this information with me or if someone could suggest a web site where I could find the necessary information. I am sure that I will need to use the terminal in some way, but I am unsure how to do it. Any help you can provide me with would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Alan Calcutt

[Magnus Melin]

Download it from
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-3.0a1&os=linux&lang=en-US

Go to that directory and execute:
tar xfvj thunderbird-3.0a1.tar.bz2
cd thunderbird
./thunderbird

If you don't want to use the command line you can unpack/start etc it in other
ways too...

-Magnus

P.S. anyone know why it gives me the windows exe file if I wget that url?

[SanderG]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 12:45:45 +0300, Magnus Melin wrote:

> Download it from
> http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-3.0a1&os=linux&lang=en-

US
>
> Go to that directory and execute:
> tar xfvj thunderbird-3.0a1.tar.bz2
> cd thunderbird
> ./thunderbird

And if you have the previous file installed prepare for another trick.

Version 2 stores the profile in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird while the given
3.0a1 stores it in .thunderbird. I had to take these steps to have it use
the same profile (OK, I could have copied the contents of the dir as well
but chose to link it instead):

rm -rf .thunderbird
ln -s .mozilla-thunderbird .thunderbird
chattr -i .thunderbird

I had to use chattr because Thunderbird refused to keep my symlink alive.
This might break other things down the road. I haven't logged a bug
because this may be partially intended behavior?

Sander

[Mark Banner]

SanderG wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 12:45:45 +0300, Magnus Melin wrote:
> Version 2 stores the profile in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird while the given
> 3.0a1 stores it in .thunderbird.

I have *never* seen the profile directory as .mozilla-thunderbird. The
default profile directory for Thunderbird has always been .thunderbird
(though that may change soon).

Are you sure this isn't a distribution specific change?

Standard8

[ovidiu]

Magnus Melin wrote:
>
> P.S. anyone know why it gives me the windows exe file if I wget that url?

Dunno, but I'd suggest to put in the moz messaging
-a list all the versions, exe zip etc or
-to point to a directory that has all those options
Cause I do use zipped ver for 3 ..

I was thinking of posting this in reply to Shredder Announce thread, but
didn't felt like spoil the happyness there .. :)

[SanderG]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:13:51 +0100, Mark Banner wrote:

> I have *never* seen the profile directory as .mozilla-thunderbird. The
> default profile directory for Thunderbird has always been .thunderbird
> (though that may change soon).
>
> Are you sure this isn't a distribution specific change?

Possibly. This is on Hardy which was upgraded from Gutsy. The profile was
created under Gutsy.

In that case this would not be a bug, although I'd expect symlinks to be
respected ;)

Sander

[Joshua Cranmer]

Knowing a bit about how Debian (and by proxy Ubuntu) works, I'm guessing
that Debian/Ubuntu changed it on purpose. Since the OP is now using a
non-customized build, the directory therefore changes as well.

[Ronald Killmer]

You could add a comment to the Shredder release notes bug, even though
it is now closed as resoved/fixed.

--
Ron K.

[Magnus Melin]

Correct, the ~/.mozilla-thunderbird profile is a debian/ubuntu thing.

-Magnus