Thunderbird

Do you know how to install software in general? You can either sudo apt-get install thunderbird in the terminal or you can search for Thunderbird in Synaptic Package Manager, mark for installation, and apply.

The package name is mozilla-thunderbird.

Thanks Dave,

It would have saved me a lot of trouble had I known this at the outset. I *did* search for Thunderbird, and not finding it, I downloaded the tarball, which led to a lot of fun with how to find it, how to run it, how to unpack it. Led to even more fun when I decided to move a few things from one folder to another.

Knowing that the name is "mozilla-thunderbird" makes the rebuilds quicker.

(You see, I keep tweaking and losing... But dammit I'm having a good time)

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we may come, touch and go, from atoms and ifs, but we're presurely destined to be odds without ends

Thanks, and Yes I did use synaptic and apt-get after my first install, but I messed something up so I reloaded from fresh.

But I did not run apt get in terminal, I used the kpackage manager, will this also work for this?

I will find package mozilla-thunderbird and mark for install, etc.

FYI I've only used RPM's method and compiled from source in the past, but if it did not install, then I did not attempt to get the dependent packages as I was afraid to hose my system.

Thanks again for the response

Agent86 wrote:

"FYI I've only used RPM's method and compiled from source in the past, but if it did not install, then I did not attempt to get the dependent packages as I was afraid to hose my system."

IMO one of the greatest strengths of Mepis is the fact that it is debian based- which takes care of dependencies when installing from apt-get(konsole) or Kpackage or synaptic. No more rpm dependency hell here!

anticapitalista

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

Thanks, I'm going to attempt to mark thunderbird for install, however before I continue just FYI:

When starting the synaptic program I get this message:

The following problems were found on your system:

W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_testing_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_testing_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_testing_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_unstable_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_unstable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_unstable_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)

It appears to be working fine in spite of these errors.

Please advise

Agent86,
You can "uncheck" the anoying repositories in "Synaptic" or in "Kpackage" that do not work. You do not need all of them. Many are dead or expired links that do not work now. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this-

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy

# This file may be edited by the MEPIS System Center
# Do not modify the comments manually!
# Change sources only in the section at the end of this file!

# Primary
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

# non-us
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

# MEPIS apt pool - specific packages available on-line
deb http://apt.mepis.org/3.3/ unstable main

# DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE
# mplayer
# deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

# deb http://192.168.0.102/pools/sid1/ testing main contrib non-free
# deb http://192.168.0.102/pools/sid2/ testing main contrib non-free
# deb http://192.168.0.102/pools/sid3/ testing main contrib non-free
# deb http://192.168.0.102/pools/sarge1/ testing main contrib non-free
# deb http://192.168.0.102/pools/sarge2/ testing main contrib non-free
# deb http://192.168.0.102/pools/sarge3/ testing main contrib non-free

The lines with "#" are commented out (not used). So you see I use very few repositories. Aside from the cranky comment returned by apt-get or Synaptic, and taking longer to load repositories it does not hurt to leave your /etc/apt/sources.list (repository list) alone and just go ahead and search, find and install a program. Careful - package name (program) must be spelled exactly correct.
Luck,
Vince

Vince LaPorte
Marshall, MN 56258

thanks again

"Many" repositories are not dead, only the non-us ones.
And if you're using Synaptic, it shouldn't matter whether you search for Thunderbird or Mozilla-Thunderbird. Searches in Synaptic are always partial-name lookups. If you search for Thunderbird, Mozilla-Thunderbird should show up in the results.