Thunderbird - how do you install (or upgrade)?
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From: TomT on 6 Aug 2010 17:27 "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >Nothing in /usr/local, time for some deeper digging... There won't be anything in /usr/local until you cd there, su to root, then untar (while /usr/local is your default directory). I'm sorry I didn't make that clear. (As I'm sure you're aware, wherever the tarball is is irrelevant as long as you point to it while you're "in" /usr/local. > >$ which thunderbird >/usr/bin/thunderbird >$ ls -l /usr/bin/thunderbird >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2009-06-06 10:11 /usr/bin/thunderbird -> >/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/thunderbird >$ ls -l /usr/lib | grep thunderbird >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-06-06 10:11 thunderbird -> thunderbird- >2.0.0.18 >drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2008-11-20 16:05 thunderbird-2.0.0.18/ Right, the above is your current installation. >OK, su to root, untar into /usr/lib, rename the directory to >thunderbird-3.1.1, and change the links... AAUGH! Typos! >What was that other thing with 42? Oh yeah, don't panic. >OK, got it now. Thanks. Well that should work. It'll wipe out your current installation though. With Slack I guess it doesn't matter since I think you pretty much build that yourself. I'm using Debian and I like to keep what I install separate from what the distribution installs. (Especially if I'm installing another version of the same thing!) TomT
From: Charlie Gibbs on 6 Aug 2010 19:41 In article <h6uo56h8cl3v4mvj7e3o2nkob644ld76cs(a)4ax.com>, TomT(a)UnrealBox.invalid (TomT) writes: > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > >> Nothing in /usr/local, time for some deeper digging... > > There won't be anything in /usr/local until you cd there, su to root, > then untar (while /usr/local is your default directory). I'm sorry > I didn't make that clear. (As I'm sure you're aware, wherever the > tarball is is irrelevant as long as you point to it while you're > "in" /usr/local. Right. Once I noticed that the old release was in /usr/lib instead of /usr/local I decided to work there instead. I don't know why the binary should be there, but the tarball contains lots of libraries (lib*.so); perhaps the original installers wanted to keep everything in one place, and the libraries won by sheer force of numbers. >> OK, su to root, untar into /usr/lib, rename the directory to >> thunderbird-3.1.1, and change the links... AAUGH! Typos! >> What was that other thing with 42? Oh yeah, don't panic. >> OK, got it now. Thanks. > > Well that should work. It'll wipe out your current installation > though. Actually, it didn't. I now have two directories in /usr/lib: thunderbird-2.0.0.18 and thunderbird-3.1.1. I run Thunderbird from a shell prompt, which finds a symbolic link in /usr/bin; it was just a matter of changing that link to point to /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.1/thunderbird. By changing it back I could roll back to the old version. The data files are all in /home so they remain intact. It all feels a bit ugly, but at least it works. -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: TomT on 7 Aug 2010 01:11
"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: <snipped some stuff> >I now have two directories in /usr/lib: >thunderbird-2.0.0.18 and thunderbird-3.1.1. I run Thunderbird >from a shell prompt, which finds a symbolic link in /usr/bin; >it was just a matter of changing that link to point to >/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1.1/thunderbird. By changing it >back I could roll back to the old version. The data files >are all in /home so they remain intact. > >It all feels a bit ugly, but at least it works. Good. I'm sorry I don't have any further suggestions but as time goes on you'll probably find a way to simplify. TomT |