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When will canonical update T-bird from 3.0 to 3.1?

Asked by Paul English

I'm running Ubuntu on my 64-bit laptop. Used Ubuntu Software Center to install Thunderbird 3.0.6, but when trying to install Lightning 1.0b as an add-on, I get a message that 1.0b is not compatible with this version of T-Bird. I tried the 64-bit version. Same thing. I read that it IS compatible with T-Bird 3.1, and want to know when a new critical update to 3.1 or beyond is scheduled. Is this the right forum to ask? I'm baffled! Thanks!

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please read the Ubuntu 10.04 release note...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Lightning extension not yet available for Thunderbird 3

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You can get 3.1 from the mozilla ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo aptget install thunderbird-3.1

You can also get beta builds of firefox as well as later builds of the current version.

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Paul English (penglishcsb) said : 		#3

Thank you both. I followed actionparsnip's advice and it all works now. Very quick! Thanks!

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Paul English (penglishcsb) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) said : 		#5

thunderbird 3.1 has migrated to the thunderbird package in the daily PPA, FYI