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Article #672Re: Trying to upgrade my thunderbird...
From: Benji Z-Man
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:55
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:55
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On 10/04/10 10:03, Andy wrote: > Benji Z-Man wrote: > >> So I have this problem... (insert bar joke here) >> >> Now that's out of the way; I'm using Thunderbird Shredder 3.0.3 beta; >> this was an upgrade from TB2.0.4, on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. >> >> Turns out there's a newer version (3.0.4 stable), but I can't seem to >> install it. Fairly newb here for linux, so I'm used to .deb or apt-get, >> neither of which work for me so far on this, since Ubuntu seems to like >> updating their files as much as your average luddite... > > From the command line, Add the PPA: > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa > > Then: > > sudo apt-get update > > Followed by > > sudo apt-get install thunderbird > > > Voila, you should now be running Thunderbird 3 (a final, non-beta > version.) > > Cheers, > Andy. Hmm. Ironically, I managed to get it updated as of today, but for one problem - turns out that it still doesn't have my broken associations =/ Anyone have a clue where to start with that? The mozilla usenet is kinda dead.
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