install & run thunderbird - gentoo
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maybe i am missing something here...but i downloaded the zip file for Linux, unzipped it in my home directory, which created thunderbird/. I changed to this directory and ran ./thunderbird...it gave me the following error:
run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute /usr/lib/mozilla/thunderbird-bin. sadly there's lots of support for installation on windows, but none for linux.... i am using gentoo... any help would be highly appreciated... thanks, PS Hmm, strange. Try to login as root and untar the Thunderbird archive to /opt/. Make necessary permission change and run as a normal user. Should work...
I'm weird, damn
nope...same error again..
run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute /usr/lib/mozilla/thunderbird-bin for some reason run-mozilla.sh tries to execute thunderbird-bin in /usr/lib/mozilla and not the one the /opt/thunderbird/ directory. There's no thunderbird-bin in /usr/lib/mozilla/ Thanks for your help, PS. Do you have Mozilla installed on /usr/lib/mozilla for some reason?
I'm weird, damn
yes, it's there...i guess it contains the lib files for mozilla....i actually tried moving it and then running thunderbird again...this time it gave the following error...
./thunderbird: line 120: /usr/lib/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: No such file or directory ./thunderbird: line 120: exec: /usr/lib/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: cannot execute: No such file or directory thanks, PS Hmm... ./thunderbird should run run-mozilla.sh that is within the same directory, but it searches for the one in /usr/lib/mozilla for some reason. Have you checked your environment variables? ($set)
Other than, I really have no idea... I'm weird, damn
Yup...you were right....there was some MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME variable set to /usr/lib/mozilla...don't know who set it....i unset it and ran thunderbird and it seems to have worked!!!
Thanks alot!!! PS im a n00b at linux and have no clue what your talking about but if someone could give me the n00b version on how to install it that would be great.
Thanks ![]() killkenny55,
Rather than dragging up a topic from 2003 in a dead forum, please start a new topic in Thunderbird Support. Be sure to put Linux in your subject line. Thank you.
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