Installing Thunderbird on Linux Lite

[jakewc2]

Hi, I just found your site today, and I was hoping somebody could help.

I just got an Acer Aspire yesterday, and I'm trying to install TB on it. I've downloaded the tar file, and extracted the files, but I cant work out how to install it.

Can somebody help please? Baring in mind, I'm a bit of a newbie with Linux, so any help needs to be in plain English. Sorry.

Thank you.

John.

[emsenn]

Hi, I just found your site today, and I was hoping somebody could help.

I just got an Acer Aspire yesterday, and I'm trying to install TB on it. I've downloaded the tar file, and extracted the files, but I cant work out how to install it.

Can somebody help please? Baring in mind, I'm a bit of a newbie with Linux, so any help needs to be in plain English. Sorry.

Thank you.

John.

You can get Thunderbird two ways (well, two straightforward ways). You've actually taken the harder of the two, but no problem.

Open up a terminal (alt+F2 and type term (or maybe its xterm, I can't recall)). There, 'cd' (change directory) to where you have the files extracted at. Once there, you want to compile the source code. You can do this by typing

./configure
make
make install

You should then have Thunderbird installed. If it spits errors about not having make installed, you can go to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make and download the latest tar. Unzip it, and there should be a script to install make there. You may need to restart, but probably not.

Of course, the second way is much simpler - type

sudo yum install thunderbird

This installs the rpm package for thunderbird, and you're good to go.

Hope this helps,
emsenn

[jakewc2]

Hi,thank you for your message, I really appreciate it. I tried the second option, as that seemed the easiest, but it went through the install, but I cant seem to find it in the desktop, its just not there.How do I open it?

[L4Linux]

Follow the next simple steps to add programs to Acer Aspire One:

1. press alt+f2 or go to Files->My Documents to open the File Manager and then go to File->Terminal.
2. In the terminal type: xfce-setting-show
3. Click Desktop, then go to Behaviour tab
4. Enable "Show desktop menu on right click"
5. Right clicking on the desktop will now give you more options.
6. Click System-> Add/Remove Software
7. Give your password

You will see the available software and can choose to install anything that is on that list. You must be connected to the Internet, so it can download the programs and install them for you.
A youtube video with the same instructions:
YouTube - Enable Desktop Menu On Aspire One


If it asks for root password you can set it the following way:
Go to Files->My Documents to open the File Manager and then go to File->Terminal.

To change root password, first you must become root:

sudo su

and change the password with the command:

passwd

When you type this command nothing will appear as you type your password. No ******* and the cursor won't move either.

[jakewc2]

Hi, thank you so much for that. I knew there was something missing, it just didnt feel as if everything was there. I set up my root password when I started up the netbook, so I didnt have a problem with getting into the root.

I do have a problem though,m in trying to install stuff. It keeps giving me an error saying.....

unable to resolve dependancies for some packages selected for installation. That's happening on every single thing I try to install. Is there anything I can do about that?

Thank you for your help.

John.

[emsenn]

With the aspire one, you'll frequently get messages like that under the default OS, since the way it was shipped is so catered toward running their software. Its best to just ignore it (Although on any other distro on any other machine, I would advice the complete opposite)

That said, I'm not sure of the command to resolve the dependencies - I just remember that you shouldn't do it on the AAO.

[jakewc2]

Hi emsenn, thankyou for your message. That seems to go against everything that is Linux, to take away your choice of what you want to use on you machine, seeing as Linux is open Source.

I dont suppose anybody can remember what the command is to get around this problem?

[emsenn]

wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/intrepid/...sktop-i386.iso
wget http://download.ubuntu-fr-secours.org/isotostick.sh
sudo ./isotostick.sh ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso /dev/<your usb stick that is larger than 1gb)

Seriously though, I don't remember the command offhand. My Aspire One is currently fubared. Sorry.

[jakewc2]

Hi emsenn, than k you for that. I am not sure though if that will work with my version of Linux Lite.

Here are the specs of my netbook

CPU - Intel Atom processor N270
LCD - 8.9 CrystalBrite WSVGA
Ram - 512 MB DDR"
Storage - 120GB
Card Reader - Multi-in-1 card reader
LAN - 10/100 base T
Softload - Linux Lite

no problem with not remembering.
John.

[emsenn]

It should work fine - I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on my acer aspire one (only mine has the 8gb ssd, not the hard drive). Full compiz effects and a bloated panel, firefox and everything running, and I'm only using 259mb of RAM.

However - suspend, resume, and hibernate don't work, and boot is a bit slower than I'd like it to be. But if it was only fear of system specs that was keeping you on Linpus Lite, fear not!