Thank you!!! It's people like you that should be thanked a million for helping the rest of us!

Try this one... maybe it will be a little easier...

http://www.atoztoa.com/2009/12/install-thunderbird-30-official-release.html

I tried and hated TB 3.0. However, I must thank Mozilla for ensuring that I could revert TB 3.0 back to 2.0 without disturbing any of my 2.0 settings. Few applications seem to retain that kind of quality.

This could be useful to those using ubuntu... it keeps firefox and thunderbird up to date with the latest versions without waiting for ubuntu to catch up.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page

Nice article, when did we drop back into 2004?

I'm glad that I only copied the files into the original location of TB2. It picked everything up and didn't skip a beat. Using a package manager would have taken LONGER.

Thunderbird is not built by Mozilla for 64-bit clients so waiting for your distro is efficient procrastination. Ubuntu does offer alternative "testing" package sources for the impatient but going back and installing 32-bit Java just to keep some unused Mozilla configuration and initialization routines happy seems wasteful.

So you are just telling people to download a compressed achieve extract it and make a short-cut (link) to the binary (executable)?

wow that's hard, or you could just use the package manager, if not then wait for it to be available in your dist...

Haven't used t-bird for ages (though I had used it back when it was in Nutscrape 3 all the way 'til say 2006-7). It really needs integrated calendaring, Exchange (for office email), etc.

Still, it's much better than Eudora.

My distro had packages for thunderbird
3.0 even before the oficial anouncemente. You inquirer guys should check how the linux world is goingo nowadays and think outside ubuntu.

This kind of article is what makes morons think Linux is hard to use.

Wow, that was easy!
Makes me wanna run out and get linux so installing a mail client involves a multipage setup document.

Thanks for sharing this, especially the last part that gets easily(?) forgotten.

This kind of advice is very nice for a person like myself, who does other things than admin their box all day long :-) but still have basic knowledge from Linux, borne of interest or necessity.