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Solved: Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Lightning Calender add-on

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Earlier today, was running Thunderbird 51.9.1 in LM 18.3 (Cinnamon, 64-bit).

Then the update manager said an update to v 60.2.1 was available, so i applied it.

I relaunched T'bird 60.2.1 to find the Lightning add-on unavailable.

How do I get Lightning to work in 60.2.1?

Force roll-back to an earlier T'bird? Re-install LM OS from TimeShift backup?

Hope someone knows!
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Re: Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Lightning Calender add-on

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Not only that. I can't even send an email. The entire area where you key in the TO, CC, BCC addresses is blanked out and I can't even move the cursor into the body area to type anything. Someone really hosed up this update.
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Re: Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Lightning Calender add-on

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I downloaded and installed the latest beta release from the bottom of

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/li ... andidates/

It appears to be working OK.
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How does one roll back?
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reticulatus wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:55 pm I downloaded and installed the latest beta release from the bottom of

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/li ... andidates/

It appears to be working OK.
I can't get it to work with Provider for Google Calendar. Can you?
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Re: Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Lightning Calender add-on

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lannatwin wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:59 pm
reticulatus wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:55 pm I downloaded and installed the latest beta release from the bottom of

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/li ... andidates/

It appears to be working OK.
I can't get it to work with Provider for Google Calendar. Can you?
Yes. Thanks to reticulatus! The download link led me to lightning-6.2b6.en-GB.xpi which installed manually into T'Bird. Provider for Google Calendar then asked me to authenticate, which I did, and things are back to normal again. Fingers crossed!
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lannatwin wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:59 pm I can't get it to work with Provider for Google Calendar. Can you?
Sorry, I don't use Google Calendar.
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SuffolkPunch wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:21 pm
lannatwin wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:59 pm
reticulatus wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:55 pm I downloaded and installed the latest beta release from the bottom of

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/li ... andidates/

It appears to be working OK.
I can't get it to work with Provider for Google Calendar. Can you?
Yes. Thanks to reticulatus! The download link led me to lightning-6.2b6.en-GB.xpi which installed manually into T'Bird. Provider for Google Calendar then asked me to authenticate, which I did, and things are back to normal again. Fingers crossed!
Hmm, that is the one I installed too. Provider was a no go though. :(
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lannatwin wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:27 pm Hmm, that is the one I installed too. Provider was a no go though. :(
I'm using v 4.4.2 of 'Provider for Google Calendar' if that helps.
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SuffolkPunch wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:19 pm ...
I relaunched T'bird 60.2.1 to find the Lightning add-on unavailable.

How do I get Lightning to work in 60.2.1?
...
As of now, Lightning is incompatible with 60.2.1
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SuffolkPunch wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:32 pm
lannatwin wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:27 pm Hmm, that is the one I installed too. Provider was a no go though. :(
I'm using v 4.4.2 of 'Provider for Google Calendar' if that helps.
That is the one I tried as well. Even before I install Provider, when click the Day, Week, Multiweek, or Month tabs, nothing happens. lightning-6.2b6.en-US is not working right for me.
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Fix please - Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Calender

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Same problem on Mint 18.3 cinnamon - Thunderbird 60.2.1 appeared as default install in "Update Manager" and after applying this (which had to come from an official repo) I have no calender tab and nothing I've tried has worked to restore calender access. The upgrade was from whatever version was available from Mint update manager, I think 52.9...

I see that synaptic has a calender extension identified as not installed "xul-ext-lightning" - Should this be installed? I don't use "google" calender.

I have a lot of important info in the calender and really really don't wish to loose it. May we get and official "fix" for this as I can't interpret the various postings
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Re: Fix please - Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Calender

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mint_julep-forums wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:50 pm Same problem on Mint 18.3 cinnamon - Thunderbird 60.2.1 appeared as default install in "Update Manager" and after applying this (which had to come from an official repo) I have no calender tab and nothing I've tried has worked to restore calender access. The upgrade was from whatever version was available from Mint update manager, I think 52.9...

I see that synaptic has a calender extension identified as not installed "xul-ext-lightning" - Should this be installed? I don't use "google" calender.

I have a lot of important info in the calender and really really don't wish to loose it. May we get and official "fix" for this as I can't interpret the various postings
Did you try lightning-6.2b6?
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With Synaptic I was able to get back to TB 38.6. Everything is working again. Not sure how to go from 38.6 to 52.9. Anyone?
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Re: Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Lightning Calender add-on

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I haven't tried any separate install of Lightning - when I open Thunderbird, select Tools>add-ons and search calender, Lightening appears with a prominent notice that Lightening is "not compatible" with my version listed as 1:60.2.1+build1...16.04.4
My previous version is listed in the update history as 1:52.9.1+build3+...16.04.1

Any suggestions on how I can back down to 52.9.1 ?? Seems like it should be simple but I am rushed and this is becoming a serious impediment
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mint_julep-forums wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:21 pm I haven't tried any separate install of Lightning - when I open Thunderbird, select Tools>add-ons and search calender, Lightening appears with a prominent notice that Lightening is "not compatible" with my version listed as 1:60.2.1+build1...16.04.4
My previous version is listed in the update history as 1:52.9.1+build3+...16.04.1

Any suggestions on how I can back down to 52.9.1 ?? Seems like it should be simple but I am rushed and this is becoming a serious impediment
Why don't you try lightning-6.2b6 first? It is obviously working for some people.
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lannatwin wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:16 pm With Synaptic I was able to get back to TB 38.6. Everything is working again. Not sure how to go from 38.6 to 52.9. Anyone?
In Synaptic, highlight Thunderbird (version 60), then on the Package menu, choose Force version... You should be able to select 52.9 version
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I installed the lightning extension from synaptic "xul-ext-lightning" and now I get calender and task buttons on the opening Thunderbird screen, and it appears to be functioning OK, displayed as version 60.2.1.
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Re: Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Lightning Calender add-on

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JerryF wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:28 pm
lannatwin wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:16 pm With Synaptic I was able to get back to TB 38.6. Everything is working again. Not sure how to go from 38.6 to 52.9. Anyone?
In Synaptic, highlight Thunderbird (version 60), then on the Package menu, choose Force version... You should be able to select 52.9 version
I did that. 60.2 & 38.6 are the only versions available.
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Re: Upgrade to T'bird 60.2.1 zaps Lightning Calender add-on

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As Mint uses the Ubuntu repos you can install lightning add-on from there; the package you need is xul-ext-lightning which is working fine with my TBird 60.2.1 in Xubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.

There have been no problems with this add-on for a very long time; I have not used the lightning add-on from the thunderbird site for a very long time now.

Worth a try I think.
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