Mozilla Thunderbid 17 is released and this is guide, howto install Thunderbird 17 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 using YUM. Thunderbird 10 is currently available on CentOS 6.3/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/5.9 own repos, so with this guide you can also install Thunderbird 10 on CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9.
What’s new in Thunderbird 17
A Menu Button is now shown to new users by default
Tabs are now drawn in the title bar on Windows
RSS feeds can now be viewed in the Wide View Layout
## Remi Dependency on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
## CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
4. Check Available Thunderbird versions
Fedora 18/17/16
yum list thunderbird
Fedora 15/14, CentOS 6.3 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3
yum--enablerepo=remi list thunderbird
CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9
yum list thunderbird
Note: Thunderbird 10 available.
5. Update or Install Thunderbird 17/10
Fedora 18/17/16
yum update thunderbird
## OR ##yum install thunderbird
Fedora 15/14, CentOS 6.3 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3
yum--enablerepo=remi update thunderbird
## OR ##yum--enablerepo=remi install thunderbird
CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9
yum update thunderbird
## OR ##yum install thunderbird
Brilliant! I have been looking for this guide for a while. I kept getting messages in my Thunderbird app saying that the version I was running would be discontinued after April 29th and I would not be able to get my mail. I kept being sent back to downloading the .tar.bz2 update but there were no instructions on how to install it. I was successful installing the update following this guide under Fedora 14/Amahi. Thank you very much!
Marco
Thanks. I always get a little iritated when something this easy (an update) is so complicated. But then again, I always find someone like yourself who has taken the time to help others and make it easy. It is greatly appreciated….
I have fedora 14 and when I run rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpm
I get this error:
error: Failed dependencies:
epel-release >= 6 is needed by remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch
I ge the following error message when attempting to run thunderbird 17 via CLI on Centos 6.3: ./thunderbird: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
it’s a useful list of instructions to installing thunderbird, especially if you run some older version of Fedora. However, since evolution is integrated into the Fedora system already as the default mail client, calendar app, etc., there are still a few steps left to do if you want to use thunderbird as your default mail client in fedora–which, let’s face it, is the main reason one would want to install it in the first place; since, there would be no reason to have 2 different programs performaning the same task.
Mozilla Thunderbid 17 is released and this is guide, howto install Thunderbird 17 on Fedora 18/17/16/15/14, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6 using YUM. Thunderbird 10 is currently available on CentOS 6.3/5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/5.9 own repos, so with this guide you can also install Thunderbird 10 on CentOS 5.9 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5.9.
thanx!!!
these little guides are seriously useful and I do appreciate it!
Thanks a lot.
Grettings.
Thanks a lot, all works perfectly.
Thanks
tnks! .)
Brilliant! I have been looking for this guide for a while. I kept getting messages in my Thunderbird app saying that the version I was running would be discontinued after April 29th and I would not be able to get my mail. I kept being sent back to downloading the .tar.bz2 update but there were no instructions on how to install it. I was successful installing the update following this guide under Fedora 14/Amahi. Thank you very much!
Marco
Thanks. I always get a little iritated when something this easy (an update) is so complicated. But then again, I always find someone like yourself who has taken the time to help others and make it easy. It is greatly appreciated….
Hi!
I have fedora 14 and when I run
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-14.rpmI get this error:
error: Failed dependencies:
epel-release >= 6 is needed by remi-release-6-1.el6.remi.noarch
Then download epel-release from http://ftp.cica.es/epel/6/i386/repoview/epel-release.html and I get this other error:
error: Failed dependencies:
fedora-release conflicts with epel-release-6-7.noarch
Can you help?
Thanks :)
Thanks it works..
Thanks …Thunderbird 16 with Lightning on CentOS 6.3….now doing it for CentOS 5.8
I ge the following error message when attempting to run thunderbird 17 via CLI on Centos 6.3: ./thunderbird: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Jack,
Could you post output of following command:
Geeeerooo……awesome
this was very useful, thanks a lot.
Thanks…information was very helpful
it’s a useful list of instructions to installing thunderbird, especially if you run some older version of Fedora. However, since evolution is integrated into the Fedora system already as the default mail client, calendar app, etc., there are still a few steps left to do if you want to use thunderbird as your default mail client in fedora–which, let’s face it, is the main reason one would want to install it in the first place; since, there would be no reason to have 2 different programs performaning the same task.