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.