SliTaz Forum archive

garrydb76

Member

Registered: 2012-09-22

Posts: 2

Need Help w/ Thunderbird. won't open

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

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: Need Help w/ Thunderbird. won't open

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.

lobotazmania

Member

Registered: 2012-07-23

Posts: 16

Re: Need Help w/ Thunderbird. won't open

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.

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Need Help w/ Thunderbird. won't open

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

Filou

Moderator

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 256

Re: Need Help w/ Thunderbird. won't open

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.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Need Help w/ Thunderbird. won't open

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.