278742 - [Installation] Install Scripts should allow proper placement & running from a 'standard' location for multi-users

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[David A. Cobb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1

LINUX: Debian 'sarge' kernel 2.6.8
THUNDERBIRD: 2005-01-16-05-trunk i686-pc-linux gtk2+ xft

The 'published' installation instructions are too brief, even for Linux.
"Unpack the archive and run 'thunderbird' -- and not even tell the poor schmuck
I should 'cd to the extracted 'thunderbird' directory and run "./thunderbird' 

ANYWAY, I plowed ahead and it worked until I tried to get the installation into
the 'normal' place: '/opt/thunderbird_<version>' with a symlink from
/usr/bin/thunderbird.  If set up that way, all my "users" - me with various hats
- can use it.  

DIDN't WORK.

SO, I fixed it by jiggering the scripts.  

BUT I still get a problem because I don't fully grok XLib yet.  
I get "cannot open connection to display..." 
XLib XDM (something)_ID matches an existing client

when I try running from a different account than where I installed from (root).

FIRST: MAY I POST HERE MY SCRIPT CHANGES -- I don't yet have a development
environment set up to let me do a proper patch script.

SECOND: Can someone de-mystify the XDM issue above.

THIRD: May I post a suggested Installation instruction for Linux, again without
being able to do a 'proper' patch script?

A further question: the scripts refer to a library directory
'/usr/local/(something)_0.6+' -- it doesn't exist. 
Should the installation move something there??

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

I think

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

which "published" installation instructions are you referring to?

you should
1) log in as a normal user
2) run /usr/bin/thunderbird (or /opt/..., whatever)

that should be it.  You can install as root, but you should be logged in and run
thunderbird as a normal user.

not installer.  dumping in help/docs

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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