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R8

Member

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 143

Thunderbird broken

Hello,

After a lot of updates: impossible to open Thunderbird.

Error message in a terminal:

cedric@R8:~$ thunderbird

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/thunderbird-17.0.11esr/libxpcom.so:

libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Couldn't load XPCOM.

cedric@R8:~$

What's the problem?

terrybull

Member

Registered: 2011-11-06

Posts: 127

Re: Thunderbird broken

What CPU are you using. Could this be the same problem that I had.

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/thunderbird-and-firefox-broken

R8

Member

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 143

Re: Thunderbird broken

Hi,

The laptop is an Asus Eee PC 900.

I think that the processor is an Intel Celeron M 900MHz.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Thunderbird broken

You can determine if your CPU supports sse2 with this command:

[c]tux@slitaz:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -o sse2[/c]

[c]sse2[/c]

[c]sse2[/c]

If yes it will output sse2 for each core of your cpu.

Remove broken thunderbird-17.0.11esr from repos.

[c]tazpkg remove thunderbird[/c]

Install new package thunderbird-bin-60.6.1 :

[c]tazpkg -gi thunderbird-bin[/c]

Thunderbird-bin is mozilla built binary packaged for slitaz.

Because it is not built from source and linked to slitaz libraries it shouldn't break when slitaz libraries are updated. Similar to firefox-official it has a built-in updater so it doesn't need to be updated by re-installing a newer version from slitaz repo.

Block it in tazpkg so it doesn't nag you to update.

[c]tazpkg block thunderbird-bin[/c]

If your cpu doesn't support sse2 I packaged and posted links to mozilla builds of thunderbird-17.0.11esr and firefox-17.0.11esr that will run here:

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/thunderbird-and-firefox-broken#post-47449

R8

Member

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 143

Re: Thunderbird broken

Hi,

Thank you for you answer.

Yes, my cpu supports sse2.

And Thunderbird is OK with your solution.

I didn't know that I was using an old version of Thunderbird.

R8

Member

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 143

Re: Thunderbird broken

But no more possible to have Thunderbird in another language than English?

On the previous version, I installed the French language pack.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Thunderbird broken

I added thunderbird-bin-fr, it may take a while for it to be built and moved to a mirror.

R8

Member

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 143

Re: Thunderbird broken

That's really nice, thank you very much!