Hello helpful Linux wizards,

I'm having difficulties installing thunderbird in Mandriva's Limited Edition 2005 distro. I'm a super Newbie, so please bear with me, and be as descriptive as possible while I continue to learn this wonderful OS.

I have downloaded Thunderbird from mozilla's website, and placed the tar ball in my /usr/local/src directory. After entering 'tar -zxvf thunderbird-1.0.2.tar.gz' (without quotes) in the proper directory, I get a long list of files that are being extracted, concluding with the following error message: (first three lines below are the last of the extracted files)

thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh
thunderbird/thunderbird
thunderbird/thunderbird-bin

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

After seeing this error, I tried running ./thunderbird to see if the installation would run, but alas no. I get the following error:

./run-mozilla.sh: line 159: 30706 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Can anyone please help me to figure out what I did wrong? Please help!

Sincerely,

Confusion

Sounds like you got a bad download. I'd redownload it and try again. Also you could see if mandriva offers a RPM for Thunderbird.

I tried to download the file again, and got the same result...

Thanks kak,

Mandriva does in fact offer an RPM for the latest version of Thunderbird, and it is now installed correctly. Thanks for your help!!

-Dan