On 12/07/14 14:44, Ed Greshko wrote:
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P. S. I am running Thunderbird 17.0.7, if that is of any relevance.
It should not matter....but that is a very old version.
So how might I upgrade to the latest version? I must confess that
Iam running a very elderly version of Fedora (17, to be explicit). I
don't dare try to upgrade my Fedora version, given what I have read on
this list about the problems that are involved with such upgrades. I
cannot afford to be stuck with a broken system. I am not sufficiently
knowledgeable to be able to fix a broken system and I have no local
resources to give me assistance.
Would I need a more recent version of Fedora in order to get a
morerecent version of Thunderbird to run?
Since F17 is EOL you can't update from the Fedora Repos. You'd have
toinstall the latest version after downloading from Mozilla's website.
Just tried to do that. I:
* downloaded the tarball thunderbird-24.6.0.tar.bz2
* unpacked it, getting a directory "thunderbird"
* put this into /usr/lib64, which is where the thunderbird directory
for my 17.0.7 version lived
* tried to start thunderbird
* got the error message
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libxul.so:
libdbus-glib-1.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Couldn't load XPCOM.
Naturally I have no idea what this really means, or what if anything can
be done about it.
***Is*** there anything that can be done about it? If so, what? Please
keep it simple and explicit, if you would be so kind. I need a *recipe*
--- "Do this, and then this, and then this ...." I understand a fair
bit of Linux jargon, but there is a *HUGE* amount that I don't
understand, so please phrase things in a way that a non-techie might be
able to follow.
For the moment I have put the old version 17.0.7 thunderbird directory
(of which I had very cleverly --- :-) --- kept a copy) back in place,
and that version of thunderbird runs with no more problems than it ever had.
Thanks for any tips.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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