On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 10:16 am, Sharrea Day wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:31, Terry Sheltra wrote: > > I've just installed Thunderbird 0.2. One problem I have is that > > while I'm using it, I can't run Mozilla (even if I try to start > > it without clicking on some link in an email message). I read > > around Bugzilla about this problem, but have absolutely no idea > > what people are talking about (I'm not all that > > programming-savvy). Could someone help try to explain how to fix > > this problem in more simple terms? > > Downloaded 0.2 today. > -- Renamed the old thunderbird install directory > -- created a new temporary "tbird" directory > -- copied the file to the new directory > -- changed to the new directory > -- untarred the tar.bz2 file > -- moved the actual "thunderbird" directory directly under > /usr/local -- changed to the /usr/local directory > -- removed the temporary "tbird" directory > > # mv /usr/local/thunderbird /usr/local/old_thunderbird > # mkdir -p /usr/local/tbird > # cp > /home/sharrea/downloads/thunderbird-0.2-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar. >bz2 /usr/local/thunderbird/ > # cd /usr/local/thunderbird/ > # tar xjf thunderbird-0.2-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 > # mv thunderbird ../ > # cd ../ > # rm -Rf tbird/ > > -- Fired up thunderbird and checked my email. > -- While thunderbird still open, opened mozilla and checked my > email. > > Both working fine. > > Perhaps you don't have separate .thunderbird and .mozilla > directories in your home directory (ie. ~/.thunderbird and > ~/.mozilla)? > > Sharrea
I ran into problems when I had Mozilla and Netscape installed together, for that reason. Question is, how do you make sure that you get the two directories? Certainly the default install of Netscape commandeered the existing directory, even though the website told you not to allow it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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