Mozilla Thunderbird under Linux compatibility?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Jul 26 16:56:33 PDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 13:44, David Gerard wrote:
> 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 ...

As soon as a tarball is released, I plan on doing a port to accompany
mozilla-firebird.

Joe

> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> 
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