Thanks to everyone,

The reason why I needed the .tar.gz file is that Mozilla are claiming
that suse makes modifications to the innate thunderbird application for
which I raised a bug report about and was told this advise. This means
that I need to verify IF there are any differences in the S/MIME
handling of the Mozilla RC and the open suse RC as they have claimed. No
wonder that I could not install it - I don't need to. I thought it
looked complete, however as you have all seen the number of .sh and .bin
files that are labelled upgrade or install you start to question.

Now I know its complete after unpacking.

cheers to all

Scott

Pueblo Native wrote:
> Registration Account wrote:
>   
>> Hi everyone,
>> This is a seemingly simple question for which I have no answer. I
>> downloaded thunderbird 2.0 from Mozilla in its native .tar.gz file format.
>> There is an amazingly lack of install instructions in Mozilla as there
>> is the assumption that your distro does all the normal install functions.
>> I have unpacked the file and seen several .bin files that you would
>> think would install - It doesn't. There are also a few .sh files that
>> you would think would install - they don't. Yes I have checked the files
>> permissions.
>> Can anyone help me with a (simple) install of thunderbird 2.0 from the
>> native .tar.gz file in a open suse 10.2 environment.
>> Many thanks
>> Scott
>>
>>   
>>     
> If you are going with the tarball, there's no need for an "installation"
> program.  Once unpacked, Thunderbird works directly out of the directory
> that you have it in. But like several in here have said, you can use the
> mozilla.org rpm site and get a custom, OpenSuse 10.2 rpm.
>   

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