Hi Terry, A good place for this question would be on the project developer list. [email protected]
Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone On Mar 23, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Terry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
