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Thunderbird is mail from mozilla it is esay to install on the xo
Thunderbird is mail from mozilla it is esay to install on the xo


go to terminal and type
go to terminal and type


wget http://pv-mirror01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.14/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-2.0.0.14.tar.gz
wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.1.9/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-3.1.9.tar.bz2


Note: 4/22/2010 - the address is correct, but the file is not correct;error 404
to install it type
Note: 3/29/2011 - the file is corrected to most recent version. Previous versions are no longer available.


to install it type
tar -xzf thunderbird-2.0.0.14.tar.gz


tar -xjf thunderbird-3.1.9.tar.bz2
ther you go that esey!


it will install it in
it will install into
/home/olpc/thunderbird
/home/olpc/thunderbird


to start it type
to start it type
./thunderbird/thunderbird
./thunderbird/thunderbird
(just like firefox start)
(just like firefox start)


Thunderbird can also be installed and run from the [[GNOME]] desktop interface.

Latest revision as of 08:04, 30 March 2011

Thunderbird is mail from mozilla it is esay to install on the xo

go to terminal and type

wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.1.9/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-3.1.9.tar.bz2

Note: 4/22/2010 - the address is correct, but the file is not correct;error 404 Note: 3/29/2011 - the file is corrected to most recent version. Previous versions are no longer available.

to install it type

tar -xjf thunderbird-3.1.9.tar.bz2

it will install into

/home/olpc/thunderbird

to start it type

./thunderbird/thunderbird

(just like firefox start)


Thunderbird can also be installed and run from the GNOME desktop interface.