SOLVED Thunderbirds are not go!

[xendistar]

I am running Debian mint with all the current updates. I have installed Thunderbird (v3.1.7?) from the repo. I want to run the latest version Thunderbird 6 (so I can use lightning), so I downloaded the latest tarball from Mozilla and extracted it to my home folder. Now the problem is it refuse to run, I have clicked on the thunderbird excutable but nothing happen, I have opened a terminal changed to the thunderbird directory in my home folder and typed thunderbird at the cli and I get bash: /usr/bin/thunderbird: No such file or directory (see below)

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mit@vulcan ~/thunderbird $ ls
application.ini    libfreebl3.chk    libplc4.so              plugin-container
blocklist.xml      libfreebl3.so     libplds4.so             precomplete
chrome             libldap60.so      libprldap60.so          README.txt
chrome.manifest    libldif60.so      libsmime3.so            removed-files
components         libmozalloc.so    libsoftokn3.chk         run-mozilla.sh
crashreporter      libmozsqlite3.so  libsoftokn3.so          Throbber-small.gif
crashreporter.ini  libnspr4.so       libssl3.so              thunderbird
defaults           libnss3.so        libxpcom.so             thunderbird-bin
dictionaries       libnssckbi.so     libxul.so               update.locale
extensions         libnssdbm3.chk    mozilla-xremote-client  updater
icons              libnssdbm3.so     omni.jar                updater.ini
isp                libnssutil3.so    platform.ini
mit@vulcan ~/thunderbird $ thunderbird
bash: /usr/bin/thunderbird: No such file or directory

Now I am guessing this is to do with the installed version of Thunderbird. I did rename the file in /usr/bin (bt adding the word old to it) and I did the same with the folder in /opt/ and the .thunderbird folder in my home folder, do I have to uninstall the previous version of Thunderbird?

Can anybody advise the correct course of action???

[xenopeek]

Hi, open a terminal:

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cd ~/thunderbird
./thunderbird

[Roken]

You can run it with the fully qualified path - ~/thinderbird/thiunderbird - or you can copy the thunderbird folder to /opt to make it work like any other application (ie. just run thunderbird, set up a launcher, etc).

[xendistar]

Hi, open a terminal:

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cd ~/thunderbird
./thunderbird

I knew it was something simple I was missing.

How do I enter that command in to the application launcher on the start menu, when I try it does not start, I chnaged the /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird %u to /home/mit/thunderbird./thunderbird and it won't launch??

Thanks again for the help

[xenopeek]

Change the Command for the start menu item to:

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sh -c "cd ~/thunderbird; ./thunderbird"

[xendistar]

Sorted, although I had to delete the current Thunderbird icon and make a new one, as it would not work by just changing the command in the existing listing for some reason.

Thank You