On 09/20/2011 08:04 AM, Bob Williams wrote:

Hi Mark,

I'm honoured that you've delurked on my behalf ;) I've replied inline, below ...

On 20/09/11 15:26, mz wrote:

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On 09/20/2011 06:22 AM, Bob Williams wrote:

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The version of Thunderbird in the oS repositories is 3.1.14, but Lightning doesn't work with this version. Apparently Tbird is up to versions 6 or 7. What do people here use?

Bob

What version of oS are you using? I've got 11.3 and have downloaded T-bird from the 11.3 repository and Lightning from Mozilla. I barely know what I"m doing, so take this for what it's worth. Maybe you need to refresh your repositories.

T-bird: 6.0.2 Lightning: 1.0b5

HTH, Mark Z.

Long time lurker; first time delurking ;0) I'm using 11.4 x86-64. It's strange that your 11.3 repos offer you T-bird 6.0.2, whereas my 11.4 only offers 3.1.14. Which repo did you get your 6.0.2 from? Do you know how to find that out? It's quite easy in YaST, under the version tab.

Thanks,

Bob

T-bird 6.0.2 came from vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla, and I'm using 11.3 x86-32. The repository for ll.3 is: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.3/ I assume for 11.4 one just has to change the last digit. Mark Z. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:27:32AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Bob Williams [09-20-11 11:06]:

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I'm using 11.4 x86-64. It's strange that your 11.3 repos offer you T-bird 6.0.2, whereas my 11.4 only offers 3.1.14. Which repo did you get your 6.0.2 from? Do you know how to find that out? It's quite easy in YaST, under the version tab.

Not strange at all. *Normally* there are only updates to a distrobution, 11.4 in your case, when there is a security problem found/corrected or significant usability corrections.

Nearly every app in the regular 11.4 repos has a higher version available in home: or factory repos. All you need to do is search at: http://software.opensuse.org/search It *has* been this way for many years :^)....

Hi, Our updates are not really limited to security and critical bugs anymore. If you think something should have bugs fixed or an update would be useful to lots of people, we can do updates for the old distros. in the bugreport NEEDINFO maintenance@opensuse.org e.g. for Firefox and Thunderbird we do version updates. If the Mozilla Maintainer (Wolfgang) decides 6.0.x is the way to go for Thunderbird he knows how to get it released for old distros too. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 20/09/11 16:33, Bob Williams wrote:

On 20/09/11 16:27, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Bob Williams [09-20-11 11:06]:

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I'm using 11.4 x86-64. It's strange that your 11.3 repos offer you T-bird 6.0.2, whereas my 11.4 only offers 3.1.14. Which repo did you get your 6.0.2 from? Do you know how to find that out? It's quite easy in YaST, under the version tab. Not strange at all. *Normally* there are only updates to a distrobution, 11.4 in your case, when there is a security problem found/corrected or significant usability corrections.

Nearly every app in the regular 11.4 repos has a higher version available in home: or factory repos. All you need to do is search at: http://software.opensuse.org/search It *has* been this way for many years :^).... Thanks, Patrick. Yes, I've woken up and added the Mozilla Build Service repo, from which I've just installed version 6.0.2. However, when I open Thunderbird, it still reports itself as being version 3.1.14. Maybe I have to uninstall the old version first.

Bob

Well, I had to logout and login again. It seems that Thunderbird remains in memory after it has apparently been closed. Thanks to you all for your help and advice. Now running T-bird 6.0.2 Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.4 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop, KDE 4.6.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 09/23/2011 01:38 PM, James Knott pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

Bob Williams wrote:

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The version of Thunderbird in the oS repositories is 3.1.14, but Lightning doesn't work with this version. Apparently Tbird is up to versions 6 or 7. What do people here use?

I just access Google Calendar via the web site.

Google has a calendar plugin for Thunderbird that works quite well. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org