Thunderbird 10 ( SOLVED)

[Fornhamfred]

As I have had no success with 9 I thought I would follow this link to add Thunderbird 10 but get the following response when trying it.
http://www.debiansystemadmin.com/mozill ... pa-ubuntu/

• Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 65, in <module>
  if not sp.add_source_from_line(line):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 630, in add_source_from_line
  (deb_line, file) = expand_ppa_line(line.strip(), self.distro.codename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 47, in expand_ppa_line
  sourceslistd = apt_pkg.Config.find_dir("Dir::Etc::sourceparts")
  AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Config'

Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong please.

[Arran]

Yes, I can. LM Debian Edition does not work with PPA's.

[viking777]

Yes, I can. LM Debian Edition does not work with PPA's.

Oh but it does! It just doesn't work very well with add-apt-repository so you may have to add them manually.

[Fornhamfred]

I tried to add it to my sources list but that did not work either. Also downloaded the tar.bz2 and extracted it but got lost at that point - something like a little knowledge!!!!
Can you suggest the line to add please as ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable is not recognised.

[viking777]

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... ble/ubuntu natty main

This information is readily available on the mozillateam website, you only have to read it - that is what I did.

[Fornhamfred]

Sorry I have spent all day trying to find where to get the info. Have added the repository but am now getting the error from apt
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net natty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9BDB3D89CE49EC21

I have tried to follow the explanation of how get the key but cannot get it to work.

[viking777]

Code: Select all

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys CE49EC21 

[Fornhamfred]

Thanks we are getting there, however the files downloaded are the language packs, dbg,dev,globalmenu, gnome support, gnome support-dbg and mozsymbols but
no Thunderbird package.

[viking777]

Thanks we are getting there, however the files downloaded are the language packs, dbg,dev,globalmenu, gnome support, gnome support-dbg and mozsymbols but
no Thunderbird package.

You are absolutely right, that is all there is in there, so even their own instructions are wrong!

The thunderbird packages are here:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... underbird/

Add that instead (or maybe as well I am not really sure about that - your choice).

[viking777]

It just suddenly struck me that after all this effort, why do you even need to use a ppa?

If when you open Tbird you go to Help>About Thunderbird it will automatically check for, download and install updates for you (I know because I just got one). Isn't this a lot easier than using ppa's?

The same goes for Firefox incidentally if you use that as well.

You don't need any entry in sources.list for this to occur - it just checks its own servers for updates. Not quite so automated as using mintupdate I suppose, but good enough for me (I couldn't figure out why I had already got Tbird 10 when you haven't and I don't have the ppa active, it all became clear when I got the update this morning!).

[Fornhamfred]

Surprise, does not work for me. If I click the update, it takes me to the Thunderbird web page to download the tar.bz2 file.
I wonder whether the apt problem is due to the fact that I have already downloaded the tar file and extracted the contents to usr/local/src?

[viking777]

I have no idea. Just install one or other of these deb files and then see if it works after that:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... _amd64.deb

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... 1_i386.deb

[Fornhamfred]

Thanks for all your help.

From your last post I downloaded the i386 deb and that has done the trick.

[Enna]

I have no idea. Just install one or other of these deb files and then see if it works after that:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... _amd64.deb

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... 1_i386.deb

Hi,

the links don't work anymore, could you please fix them?

Many thanks,
Enna

[viking777]

I have no idea. Just install one or other of these deb files and then see if it works after that:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... _amd64.deb

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... 1_i386.deb

Hi,

the links don't work anymore, could you please fix them?

Many thanks,
Enna

They seem to have combined the 32 and 64 bit packages into one folder. They are at the bottom of this list:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/th ... underbird/

[mockturtl]

[url=ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest/linux-i686/en-US/]32-bit[/url]

[url=ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest/linux-x86_64/en-US/]64-bit[/url]