[opensuse] thunderbird reinstall on 12.1
Howdy again, I just made a new install of 12.1 from the dvd. I was previously using 11.4. I was already using KDE 4.7.2, and so I am still using it. There was a bit of a mix up on my home directory, and the install disk installed the new KDE in a different directory because of my username change. But I switch back to my old KDE directory, which was located in /home/george by modifying the /etc/passwd file to point to that directory instead of the separate installation. By doing this, I was able to get back most of my KDE settings. However, when I try to start thunderbird from a panel, I get the following error: Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:///usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop does not exist. I have 11.4 installed on partition sda5 and 12.1 installed on sda6. When I boot up in 11.4, I have no problem running thunderbird. I understand that the /usr/share/applications is in my root directory, so that is why thunderbird will run in 11.4 and not in 12.1. However, I am wondering how to setup thunderbird in 12.1 now, and not lose all the settings that I had for it before? Thanks G . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 20 Dec 2011, George OLson wrote:
Howdy again,
and again and again ... -- If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Howdy again,
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Il 19/12/2011 22:10, George OLson ha scritto:
Howdy again,
I just made a new install of 12.1 from the dvd. I was previously using 11.4. I was already using KDE 4.7.2, and so I am still using it.
There was a bit of a mix up on my home directory, and the install disk installed the new KDE in a different directory because of my username change. But I switch back to my old KDE directory, which was located in /home/george by modifying the /etc/passwd file to point to that directory instead of the separate installation. By doing this, I was able to get back most of my KDE settings.
However, when I try to start thunderbird from a panel, I get the following error:
Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:///usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop does not exist.
I have 11.4 installed on partition sda5 and 12.1 installed on sda6. When I boot up in 11.4, I have no problem running thunderbird.
I understand that the /usr/share/applications is in my root directory, so that is why thunderbird will run in 11.4 and not in 12.1. However, I am wondering how to setup thunderbird in 12.1 now, and not lose all the settings that I had for it before?
Thanks G .
If I'm not understanding wrong, you should have two ways to use Thunderbird: 1) start from scratch by installing it on the 12.1 partition 2) re-use your 11.4 Thunderbird main settings and profiles by copy/paste all the necessary folders/files from sda5 to sda6 by respecting related file ownership. Good Luck! -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.1 (Aspargus) - Kernel 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64 Gnome 3.2.1 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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George OLson
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