I believe you have missed the point. I have no wish to compile Thunderbird. My distro supports the Mozilla applications.
I was raising the question of whether the Linux version of AOO could / should be provided in the same way that Mozilla provides Firefox and Thunderbird. ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alan Lord (News) <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 8:16 PM > Subject: Re: Mozilla-like installation for Linux? > > On 23/03/12 05:56, Terry wrote: >> My recollection is that several years ago there was at least a >> discussion about the possibility of a package of the same kind as >> Firefox and Thunderbird. Mozilla provides a compressed folder >> containing everything you need apart from plugins and, I dare say, >> Mozilla could include plugins if it wanted to. > > It's not *that* hard to compile mozilla apps from source. That way you can > have it build for pretty much any linux system. > > I'm sure a quick google would provide you with a decent howto... Yes. I was > right: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/thunderbird.html > > Even show you what dependencies there are. > > HTH > > Al > > > -- Libertus Solutions > http://www.libertus.co.uk > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
