On 08/01/11 20:54, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
I just tried to install thunderbird on my new machine and was greeted with this:
administra...@jay:~$ thunderbird
The program 'thunderbird' is currently not installed. You can install
it by typing:
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
administra...@jay:~$ sudo apt-get install thunderbird
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
thunderbird is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
administra...@jay:~$
so thunderbird is installed but won't run, probably because there's no
executable (or at lease none found by `locate thunderbird` that seems
to actually run the program.
If you only just installed Thunderbird then locate won't find it until
you've run sudo updatedb. Try:
which thunderbird
That should tell you it is in /usr/bin/. If not, then something is up
with your installation. Did you originally install it using synaptic or
apt-get?
is this an ongoing bug or have I messed up my install already?
I don't think you've messed up the install just because one app is not
running. Does it run from the Applications>Internet menu? Does it run if
you use the full path (/usr/bin/thunderbird) ? Do you have any
additional repositories active which may have installed a different
version of Thunderbird to somewhere else other than /usr/bin/ ?
Another possibility is the Thunderbird profile is corrupt. You can check
this by running it with:
thunderbird --profilemanager --no-remote
That should bring up the profile menu in Thunderbird, and you can see
from that if you already have one or more profiles, and create a new one
to see if that works. If it does, chances are there is something wrong
with your profile.
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