This directory contains Solaris builds of the Thunderbird 24.0 beta,
which are contributed by Oracle Solaris Desktop Beijing Team.
If you have any problem with these builds, please send email to 
ginnchen at gmail dot com


Installation:
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* Tarball format

Extract the tarball to a proper location[1]
$ bzip2 -dc <tarball basename>.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -

[1]: Make sure there is no thunderbird directory there before you 
extract the tarball, it's not recommended to just overwrite the old 
thunderbird directory.

* Pkgadd format

1, First uncompress the zip file
$ bzip2 -d <zip file basename>.bz2 
You will get a package datastream file named <zip file basename>

2, Install the package as root
# pkgadd -d ./<zip file basename>
The default install location would be /opt/sfw/lib/thunderbird


To Run The Application:
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a, Execute the application by specifying the absolute path 
$ /path/to/<install location>/thunderbird

b, Add <install location> to your PATH and execute "thunderbird"

c, Add the desktop file and start from menu(pkgadd format only)
# cat >/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop<<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Exec=/path/to/<install location>/thunderbird
TryExec=/path/to/<install location>/thunderbird
Icon=/path/to/<install location>/icons/mozicon50.xpm
X-GNOME-DocPath=
Terminal=false
Name=Thunderbird
GenericName=Thunderbird
Comment=Thunderbird
Categories=Application;Network;
EOF


Troubleshooting:
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* If you could not start up the application or encounter some 
unexpected crash, try to do this,

1, Rename the profile directory("$HOME/.mozilla" for Mozilla suite, 
"$HOME/.mozilla/firefox" for Firefox and "$HOME/.thunderbird" for 
Thunderbird)

2, Start up the application without importing anything

* For Solaris 10 users, if you have font display problems or crashes with some pages.
Please apply the fontconfig and Freetype patch.
#138353, #119813 (x86)
#138352, #119812 (SPARC)

You can download them at http://sunsolve.sun.com
      
Build Configuration:
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* Firefox and Mozilla suite

Start up Mozilla/Firefox that you just installed and type 
"about:buildconfig" in the URL field, and then you would see all the 
build configurations used for this build.

* Thunderbird

Extract "buildconfig.html" from <install location>/chrome/toolkit.jar, 
which records all the build configure information of this build. 
$ jar xf /path/to/<install location>/chrome/toolkit.jar \
    content/global/buildconfig.html