Really difficult to help someone who has gone outside their packaging system and who has installed a local version of a package just for one user.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >> > /. >> > >
