Mozilla Thunderbird under Linux compatibility?

[David Gerard]

David Gerard (fun at thingy.apana.org.au) [030724 06:05]:

> I'm trying to run a current Thunderbird build for Linux under compatibility. 
> It's quitting with:
> fun at diva:~ $ ./thunderbird/thunderbird
> ./thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: 
> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
> fun at diva:~ $
> I have installed linux_base-6.1, linux_base-6.1_1 and linux_base-7.1_3. The 
> last of these was enough to make Mozilla Firebird work properly ...
> Anyone else gotten Thunderbird to work?


It turns out that Thunderbird for Linux is compiled against gtk2. My
machine has native gtk2, but evidently it wants a Linux gtk2; and there is
no linux-gtk port for 2, only for 1.2. How annoying! Looks like I'll have
to build it myself. Perhaps someone willl do a port or package for
Thunderbird 0.1, which is coming soon ...


- d.