How to use Thunderbird in FatDog700?

[vvvora]

I've installed FatDog 700, and was interested in using Thunderbird. I do not see Thunderbird in the gslapt repository. Is it possible to install Thunderbird? Is it better to switch to sylpheed?

VVV

[Semme]

Dwnd from Mozilla, unpack and hit the executable.. It should still be portable.

On the other hand, update pkg manager and search >> mozilla-thunderbird.

The latter approach, I'll assume.. should place it in the menus.

[jamesbond]

We haven't build Thunderbird into the repo yet. So try Semme's advice, download official 64-bit Thunderbird from mozilla website and give it a try if you really need thunderbird.

Alternatively, Seamonkey comes with an email client which works like and behaves like Thunderbird (because it and Thunderbird shares about 95% of the code). It even comes with Calendaring with hooks to Google Calendar, if that's what you're looking for.

[Semme]

Hmm, what I wanted to know. That every package is compiled by it's maintainers sounds more robust.

Despite the fact that it uses Slackware-style package management tools, Fatdog64 700 is not based on Slackware. 700 is built from modified versions of LFS (Linux From Scratch) and BLFS, version 7.5.

Speaking of maintainers >> Paul Sherman is one class act!

[JustGreg]

This a Fatdog64 thunderbird 31.1.1 package now available here:http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/contrib/packages/700/. The package is based on the Mozilla binary package. I hope this helps.