Thunderbird 2 on Centos 5.1

Found at tbox.myblogspot.com:

  1. Download Thunderbird 2 from Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/) or other mirros like (http://mirror.oscc.org.my/mozilla/thunderbird/). I downloaded thunderbird-2.0.0.14.tar.gz to the directory /tmp.
  2. Extract the files
  3. Open a terminal and login as root to the directory /opt

    su -
    cd /opt

    4. Copy the extracted forlders to /opt
    cp -rf /tmp/thunderbird /opt

    5. Install the older library of libstdc++.so.5 (5.1 comes with version libstdc++.so.6)
    yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386

    6. Test the Thunderbird as a normal user
    /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird

    7. Copy the icons to the user wide pixmap
    cp thunderbird/icons/mozicon*.xpm /usr/share/pixmaps/

    8. When Thunderbird starts, it complains about the mode for /var/spool/mail, as it cannot write to this folder. As root do the following
    chmod 01777 /var/spool/mail

Add the application launcher in the panel/menu using the mozicon icon. Only things left is to install other plugins. My first plugins are always the Calendar (lightning) and birthday.

This entry was written by bill, posted on October 2, 2008 at 11:30 am, filed under Linux and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.