Comments on: Howto install thunderbird-2.0.0.0.tar.gz in Linux

By: mike dillon

mike dillon — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:48:34 +0000

great instructions still work with thunder bird 7!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:28:52 +0000

I’m having the same problem as hladki:

$./thunderbird
./thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The yum installer does the job right, but it asks me to download and install version 3.1.11. I Negative, I choose for version 2.0.0.24, so I hit “n”. Below I copied the most important messages:

$ yum install thunderbird
–> Package thunderbird.i686 0:3.1.11-1.fc14 set to be installed
Is this ok [y/N]: n

Can anyone give us a hint?

By: sharad

sharad — Thu, 13 May 2010 05:38:52 +0000

excellent instructions

By: hladki

hladki — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:53:59 +0000

I’ve extracted the thunderbird directory… im getting an error
$cd thunderbird
$./thunderbird
./thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I’ve installed libstdc++6-4.1, but it hasn’t solved problem. What should do I next?

By: shiva

shiva — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:43:10 +0000

Lots of installation stopped in ./configure

By: adesh

adesh — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:29:45 +0000

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:13:55 +0000

Very helpful for a windoze coverting to linux newbie.
Thanks for you effort.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:14:13 +0000

Thank you very much. Having just made the switch from Windows I needed this!

By: Praful

Praful — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:02:21 +0000

Thanks for Instructions……THANKS DEAR

By: manjunathpuru

manjunathpuru — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:01:08 +0000

Simply super instructions………………….Sir i have created the launcher but the icon is like shell
script…………..how to change the icon to default Thunderbird logo…….

By: gtennant

gtennant — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:16:03 +0000

I followed the “install so everyone can use Thunderbird” instructions, but was logged in as root. I then ran Thunderbird as root, and brought in my (gtennant’s) email and address book from outlook, as directed. Though not seamless, I got the data to where it needed to be, apparently. Question is: though I can, as gtennant, launch Thunderbird, it doesn’t see the Local Files and all its contents as it appears when running Thunderbird as root. Same happens when I log in as gtennant, then go to a terminal window, su – in, then launch Thunderbird — it then works. I don’t want to operate routinely as root, so what to do?
Thx,
gtennant

By: Roy Bonney

Roy Bonney — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:25:26 +0000

Hi, my Windows ME PC finally died, so decided to move to Thunderbird under Debian for all my email etc. QUESTION how can I import/read in all existing emails, contacts list, etc. from a full backup of data files I have on CD to my new empty Thunderbird? Is the file structure under Debian compatible for straight copy? Any help appreciated, Thanks.

By: Eduardo Heredia

Eduardo Heredia — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:37:23 +0000

Hahaha … that’s was a good one (Tom or Jerry) :-D
So, why not change better to Itchy and Scratchy ? … For the new generations :-P

By: Muthukumar

Muthukumar — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:16:20 +0000

Exellent work!

Thanx Dear

By: PS

PS — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:52:44 +0000

nice instructions , thank you i installed without any issue with your instructions..

By: pramod

pramod — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:07:11 +0000

very nice informations, i am using this from 2 yrs in windows and now i shifted to ubuntu 8.10 it working fine.. hearty thanks to team.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:37:54 +0000

You need to install libstdc++5 – the GNU Standard C++ Library v3 or above. Use yum or apt-get command to install the same.

By: Nead

Nead — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:17:10 +0000

Anyone help?

By: karan

karan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:15:37 +0000

Hi,, tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz command doesnt work.. wht is the probs??

By: sahan

sahan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:20:24 +0000

thanks a lot sir…..