1499250 - There is no way to have Thunderbird 60 + Lightning localized in Ubuntu!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1484532

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: General, defect)

Description

[momo42]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Steps to reproduce:

Until yesterday I used Thunderbird 52 on Ubuntu 18.04. Ubuntu ships Thunderbird without Lightning installed and the provided package xul-ext-lightning doesn't provide any translations. (The problem is, that I need a german localized Lightning as not every user in my household speaks english) So I installed Lightning from the Addons-Menu. Yesterday evening Thunderbird updated to v. 60.2.1 and the installed Lightning Addon (5.4) was deactivated because it is not compatible anymore.


Actual results:

I did a lot searching on the internet and found a lot people having the same problem than me - but no solution. Lightning 6.2 is the current version but Lightning 5.4 seems to be the last version distributed through Thunderbird-AddOns. And I also didn't find any Lightning files for manual installation (aside from some beta versions).
So the situation is as follows: The Ubuntu people don't provide a localized version of Lightning 6.2 and the Thunderbird people don't provide ANY compatible version of Lightning I can install on ubuntu.


Expected results:

I found multiple closed ubuntu bugs and many discussions on ubuntu forums saying all the same: xul-ext-lightning does and will not contain localization and people who need a localized calendar have to install the Lightning provided by Thunderbird AddOns!

I'm completely lost now. Ubuntu seems to deny any help and Thunderbird also. Please help and provide current lightning versions via AddOns again! Or talk to the ubuntu guys! They don't listen to their users but probably they listen to _you_?!?

:-(

Comment 1

[momo42]

Here is some more information on the unsolved localization situation in ubuntu. Sadly I could provide dozens of such examples:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightning-sunbird/+bug/54577

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightning-extension/+bug/686011

https://askubuntu.com/questions/690056/thunderbird-lightning-calendar-extension-not-translated

Comment 2

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

I can't say when the version on addons.thunderbird.net will be updated as that's not up to me. In the meantime though, download Thunderbird from here, unpack it, and install the file from distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}.xpi.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.2.1/linux-x86_64/de/

I don't know why Ubuntu ship Thunderbird like that. Seems a bit stupid to me.

Comment 4

[momo42]

Thanks for pointing me into the right direction. This indeed worked for me. :-D

But I think you agree, that this cannot be the standard procedure for installing localized Lightning versions on Linux. Way too complicated for normal users and there is no update mechanism in place. So you have to reproduce all those steps again for every update. Anyway: Your solution did help me for now. Thanks for that. I'll have an eye on the other bug now. It is a shame that this (linux) localization problem persists for nearly a decade now. I found out Fedora has this problem too ... In my opinion the linux distributions should be responsible for providing proper localization. But in the past users could go the AddOn way.

Funny thing is that Lightning is shown as most installed AddOn in "AddOn-Store" but no compatible version is available ... :-/