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After updating to Ubuntu 7.04 “Fiesty Fawn” I was surprised to find out that it did not come with Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0. Well, this happened because the new version of Mozilla’s popular email program was released a couple of days after Fiesty Fawn, at which point it was simply to late.

If you want to install and use Thunderbird 2.0, here is your quick and dirty guide:

The first thing we need to do is download Thunderbird 2 from Mozilla, save it to somewhere you will remember, the default is your Desktop under Ubuntu. This brief how to will assume that you saved the file to your Desktop.

Open a Terminal Session (applications -> accessories -> Terminal)

cd Desktop

tar zxvf thunderbird-2.0.0.0.tar.gz

sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird2

Now we have Thunderbird installed, but we do not have an Icon to launch it, we need to add one. I like to keep icons for Firefox and Thunderbird on the top Panel, beside the system menu, these instructions will work if you choose to create a launch icon on the desktop.

1. Right click on the top launch bar, select “add to panel”
2. Click “Custom Application Launcher” on the pop up window. (If you chose to create an Icon on your desktop, right click your desktop and select “Create Launcher…”)
3. Set type to “Application”
4. Name: Thunderbird 2.0
5. Command: /opt/thunderbird2/thunderbird
6. Next, click on Icon, and scroll down until you see the Thunderbird icons, choose the “mozilla-thunderbird.xpm” icon.
7. Click “OK”

And thats it. Enjoy Thunderbird 2.0!

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