This directory contains Solaris builds of thunderbird 3.0.1, which are contributed by SUN Desktop Beijing Team. If you have any problem with these builds, please send email to desktop dash discuss at opensolaris dot org
Installation:
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* Tarball format
Extract the tarball to a proper location[1]
$ bzip2 -dc
extract the tarball, it's not recommended to just overwrite the old
thunderbird directory.
* Pkgadd format
1, First uncompress the zip file
$ bzip2 -d
You will get a package datastream file named
2, Install the package as root
# pkgadd -d ./
The default install location would be /opt/sfw/lib/thunderbird
To Enable Java:
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cd /path/to/
ln -s /path/to/
On Solaris 10, Java plugin is probably located at
/usr/java/jre/plugin/
On Solaris 8/9, it's probably located at
/usr/j2se/jre/plugin/
To Enable Flash/Shockwave:
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1, Download the Flash/Shockwave plugin from
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Intel&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4&P5_Language=English
2, Extract the tarball and place the files under
/path/to/
To Run The Application:
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a, Execute the application by specifying the absolute path
$ /path/to/
b, Add
c, Add the desktop file and start from menu(pkgadd format only)
# cat >/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop<
TryExec=/path/to/
Icon=/path/to/
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Terminal=false
Name=hunderbird
GenericName=hunderbird
Comment=hunderbird
Categories=Application;Network;
EOF
Troubleshooting:
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* For Solaris 8 builds, you need to install GTK 1.2 library.
You can get the GTK 1.2 libraries from sun.com or sunfreeware.com
* Also for Solaris 8 builds, you may need to install some required
patches.
For example, if you encounter the following error,
ld.so.1: ./thunderbird-bin: fatal: relocation error: file ./thunderbird-bin: symbol fmod: referenced symbol not found.
You probably have to install Math Library(libm) patch,
Solaris 5.8 sparc: 111721
Solaris 5.9 sparc: 111722
Solaris 5.8 i386 : 112757
Solaris 5.9 i386 : 111728
You might have more than one libm library installed on your system,
please make sure that you are using the one under /usr/lib.
* If you could not start up the application or encounter some
unexpected crash, try to do this,
1, Rename the profile directory("$HOME/.mozilla" for Mozilla suite,
"$HOME/.mozilla/firefox" for Firefox and "$HOME/.thunderbird" for
Thunderbird)
2, Start up the application without importing anything
Build Configuration:
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* Firefox and Mozilla suite
Start up Mozilla/Firefox that you just installed and type
"about:buildconfig" in the URL field, and then you would see all the
build configurations used for this build.
* Thunderbird
Extract "buildconfig.html" from
which records all the build configure information of this build.
$ jar xf /path/to/
content/global/buildconfig.html