installing thunderbird-24.1. tar bz2

herakles_14 · 11-04-2013, 12:18 PM

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

herakles_14 · 11-04-2013, 02:30 PM

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?

angryfirelord · 11-10-2013, 05:26 PM

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.

Code:

# zypper search thunderbird
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                                   | Summary                | Type      
--+----------------------------------------+------------------------+-----------
  | MozillaThunderbird                     | The Stand-Alone Mozi-> | package   
  | MozillaThunderbird                     | The Stand-Alone Mozi-> | srcpackage
  | MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbols        | Breakpad buildsymbol-> | package   
  | MozillaThunderbird-devel               | Mozilla Thunderbird -> | package   
  | MozillaThunderbird-translations-common | Common translations -> | package   
  | MozillaThunderbird-translations-other  | Extra translations f-> | package   
  | tracker-miner-thunderbird              | Tracker miner to ind-> | package

Installing thunderbird is simply accomplished by issuing zypper install MozillaThunderbird.