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Looking For Thunderbird pet
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Semme
Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2046 Location: World_Hub |
No, I'm sorry- I can't. Like I said earlier- it's portable.. and from your save file no less.. |
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Amgine
 Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 212 Location: Washington State |
Just download Thunderbird extract the file, and look for the Thunderbird icon, It will say "Thunderbird" Take the file and link it to your desktop. |
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Sky Aisling
 Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 590 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
Thank you, Amgine
Where do I find the *Thunderbird extract file*? |
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Amgine
Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 212 Location: Washington State |
Here it is https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ Two ways to extract it (Well Three but no need for the Terminal) Right click and choose Extract Auto detect subfolders or Just open the Ziped folder and it will open up and give you extraction options. Last edited by Amgine on Fri 18 Jan 2013, 17:00; edited 1 time in total |
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Makoto
 Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 1367 Location: Out wandering... maybe. |
Go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/, and click on the green "Thunderbird Free Download" button on the left. This should download a .tar.bz2 file. Go to your download directory in ROX-Filer, and locate the file. Select the file, right-click on it, and select Rename. Highlight the entire filename in the box that pops up (from 'thunderbird' all the way to the .tar.bz2) and Copy the filename (either by pressing Ctrl+C, or right-clicking on the highlighted filename and selecting Copy). Click on Cancel (don't follow through on the rename, in other words  ).
Next, open a terminal window by pressing the ~ key. Enter the following:
...with a space after the "xvf." Use Paste to insert the filename you just copied, and press Enter to run the command. After tar is done extracting the .tar.bz2 archive, you should have a "thunderbird" directory in the same folder as the downloaded archive. Drag that folder to wherever you want to keep it, such as ~/my-applications/bin. Next, open the thunderbird folder, after you've placed it where you want it to be permanently stored. Drag the "thunderbird" file to the desktop, to create a shortcut. You can then rename the shortcut to whatever you want, and change the icon. _________________ [ Puppy 4.3.1 JP, Frugal install | 1GB RAM | 1.3GB swap ] * My Pidgin Builds for Puppy 4.3.1 In memory of our beloved American Eskimo puppy (1995-2010) and black Lab puppy (1997-2011). |
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Sky Aisling
Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 590 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
Good Gravey, Makoto! I had no idea that is what is involved in taking a download from Mozilla direct! Thank you for taking time to write all these instructions out. |
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Semme
Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2046 Location: World_Hub |
Hey Makoto  *truly* BIZARRE. 
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Makoto
Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 1367 Location: Out wandering... maybe. |
It could probably be shortened; I never had any luck with the GUI archivers in my Puppy 4 setups - they usually didn't keep the folders or permissions intact, for some reason. (And, I don't have the "Extract Auto Detect Subfolders" option Amgine mentions.  )
But, it's the method I use, just to be sure, when manually installing programs (that are already compiled) from a .tar.gz or tar.bz2 archive, including Seamonkey 2, Firefox, Thunderbird, Peazip, etc. 
_________________ [ Puppy 4.3.1 JP, Frugal install | 1GB RAM | 1.3GB swap ] * My Pidgin Builds for Puppy 4.3.1 In memory of our beloved American Eskimo puppy (1995-2010) and black Lab puppy (1997-2011). |
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Amgine
Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 212 Location: Washington State |
Oops, Sorry I must have had Kubuntu in mind. But there is a way to extract ziped folders with the GUI. |
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Semme
Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2046 Location: World_Hub |
Amgine- modern Pup's extract just about everything these days. Pup's point is to avoid the cli. |
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Sky Aisling
Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 590 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
What's *cli*? |
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Semme
Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2046 Location: World_Hub |
C'mon now- http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/cli.html |
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Sky Aisling
Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 590 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
Thank you, I've looked around for years now trying to find something that would explain in common words how to use the terminal in Puppy. Thanks to Tux! How come the terminal entries look different in Ubuntu than in Puppy? |
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Semme
Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2046 Location: World_Hub |
Look different? In what way? |
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Sky Aisling
Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 590 Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA |
I've tried entering commands I've learned in Puppy and Ubuntu says, "it's not BASH" ? |
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