577634 - It's not possible to install Lightning on a 64bit System using 64bit Thunderbird in Ubuntu 10.4

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 455683

(Calendar :: Lightning Only, defect)

Description

[Philipp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100628 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.6
Build Identifier: lightning-1.0b1-tb+sm-linux

MSG: "Lightning" could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

You need to use a 64-bit build of Lightning.

Thunderbird 3.0: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning1.0b1.html#linux-x86-64-builds

Thunderbird 3.1: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning1.0b2.html#linux-x86-64-builds

Comment 5

[Phil]

"Lightning" could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

Running 64bit version 3.1.7 of Thunderbird

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

For Ubuntu specific instructions please read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThunderbirdLightning