installing thunderbird-24.1. tar bz2
 

hi;

I just moved over from Ubuntu and I am still gettng my feet wet in a manner of speaking. I want to install Mozilla Thunderbird on my openSUSE would I use this command in the terminal:

sudo zypper tar xvvf thunderbird-24.1.0.tar.bz2

herakles_14

hello;

I found Thunderbird in my openSUSE so was able to install it okay. Still hat commandline of: 'sudo zypper xvjf filename tar bz2' Would that work in most instances?

zypper is for the management of rpm packages that are built for the opensuse distribution. It doesn't let you do it with a source file. You can use a source tarball if you want, but you'll have to know how to compile it from source.

If you're not familiar with zypper, I would start with this article: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_usage

To find thunderbird, you can use the search option.
Installing thunderbird is simply accomplished by issuing zypper install MozillaThunderbird.