So, I've had my new linux PC at work for about 2 weeks and I've been trying to install Thunderbird for about a week.

It is some sort of redhat an i86_64 (I figure if the version of the OS is so important, it would be easy to find without hardly wanting to know anything about linux, but it's not) and it has yum on it so after many days I find a helpful place that tells me to download fedora-release-4-2.noarch.rpm and finally, after installing this, yum finally installs Thunderbird for me!

But now when I start thunderbird, the fonts aren't right it looks like this:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46...hunderbird.png

Still it is a small, tiny, small Pyrrhic victory that makes me feel good. And I figure it out without reading any awful awful unreadable hypergrapic man pages. I hate those things.

Can someone tell me what is causing it? And more importantly how to fix it. Without reading any godawful man pages, please

Thanks and be well.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Double U

okay, I find out I was probably installing for fedora core 4 so that tells me at least that I must have FC4 so that's information.

I find out doing this: yum install libstdc++.so.5 and then I can run thunderbird from the directory and I don't get the little squares but it doesn't show up in the menu.

so freaking annoying.

okay, I think I finally figure it out and install fedora core 6.

Okay so for people who come after me who hate reading man pages:

find the latest Fedor core

yum install {the name of the core rpm}

then

yum install thunderbird

We will make this into an easy to use OS yet.