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Need Help w/ Thunderbird. won't open

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• Started 11 years ago by garrydb76
• Latest reply from mojo
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   garrydb76
   

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   I've installed Thunderbird from Mozilla, twice, it shows to be installed, but it won't open.. Any ideas

   SliTaz 4.0
   4gb ram
   G41-M7 motherboard
   22inch Acer Monitor
   6Hard drives all SATA
   dual core processor 2.9x2
   Registered Linux User #2522175

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   gdesilva
   

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   Run Thunderbird from a terminal (ie. type 'thunderbird <enter>) - this will show error messages, if any.

   PS. I presume you installed Thunderbird from the Slitaz repository, which is the recommended method as this method would take care of all dependencies.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   lobotazmania
   

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   i have a similar trouble with seamonkey, and just i install mising dependencies and all works fine.
   to found mising dependencies just use find tazpkg (this is the package that show in terminal when you star thunderbird from it) and it show you what dependencies is mising, then use tazpanel and download the lib.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   You should tell me the missing dependencies so I can add them to the packages.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Filou
   

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   I see the problem of keeping up with Mozilla's pace in updating firefox / thunderbird (and eventually others, too), but I wonder, if building packages and dependencies for those is worth the struggle.

   On
   ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest/linux-i686/ [lang]

   the latest version of thunderbird is available as a standalone .tar.bz2 (no dependencies).

   Would it not be easier to build a .tazpkg with a script like get-[application], that simply fetches the latest available release, unpacks it (for example to /usr/lib/), puts an [application].desktop file in /usr/share/applications, copies the icon from the unpacked directory to /usr/share/pixmaps and the whole spook is done? (you might add information in /var/lib/tazpkg/installed to have the package information)

   Like this, an application update would not automatically induce an update of the tazpkg and we wouldn't experience any dependency-problems.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Clean boot into slitaz 4.0 core live cd install seamonkey, it starts OK.
   Clean boot into slitaz 4.0 core live cd install thunderbird, it starts OK.
   The users posting that seamonkey and thunderbird won't start have broken slitaz installs.

   Posted 11 years ago #

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