Prior to today, thunderbird was running from files extracted from a tar.gz
downloaded from mozilla.com into ~/.mozilla-thunderbird, which is also where my
mail profile/folder is.  apt-get removed those files (not the mail folders) and
set up to run as below.  First attempt to get it going this morning was by
re-extracting from the tar.gz into ~/.mozilla-thunderbird.  It will run, but
throws the error "failed to connect to server".  That was v2.0.0.4.  So I got
the latest v2.0.0.17 this evening, extracted into ~/mozilla-thunderbird.  Files
owned by root, so (getting desperate and considering a re-install):

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chown -R roger:roger /home/roger/.mozilla-thunderbird/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chmod -R 774 /home/roger/.mozilla-thunderbird/

Still, "failed to connect to server"...
Roger



> there doesn't seem to be a thunderbird binary.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi, this morning "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade"
> offered
> >> a
> >> > thunderbird update among other things. Consequently thunderbird
> failed
> >> to load,
> >>
> >>
> >> what is the output of
> >>
> >> dpkg -L thunderbird
> >>
> >> ?
> >
> > warning: LONG output
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -L thunderbird
> > /.
>  

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