• General Information

This document contains information about system requirments and installation instructions for the Thunderbird for Tru64 UNIX®.

The Thunderbird for Tru64 UNIX® is subject to the terms detailed in the MPL and LGPL/GPL license agreements accompanying it.

Support for the Thunderbird for Tru64 UNIX® is covered under your HP Tru64 UNIX® operating system support contract. Contact your Hewlett Packard support organization to submit defect reports and other feedback.

The Bugzilla Web site contains links to known bugs, bug-writing guidelines, and more.

For more information, visit the Mozilla Foundation Web site.

• Getting Thunderbird

Thunderbird for Tru64 is available as part of the Internet Express.

You can also download the latest version of the Thunderbird from the Hewlett Packard Tru64 UNIX Internet Web site on the "download" tab at the following URL: http://www.hp.com/go/tru64unix/internet

The source code for the Thunderbird is also available for download from the Mozilla Foundation Web site.

For information on building Thunderbird from the sources, see:


• http://www.thunderbird.org/source.html

Be sure to read the Thunderbird Release Notes for information on known problems and installation issues with the Thunderbird Milestone builds.

• System Requirements

• All Desktops
  To view and use the new streamlined "Modern" theme, your display monitor should be set to display thousands of colors. For users who cannot set their displays to use more than 256 colors, Mozilla.org recommends using the "Classic" theme for Mozilla.

  To select the "Modern" theme after you have installed Thunderbird, open the Preferences dialog in the Edit pulldown menu of the Navigator component, select the "Appearence" menu, and then select the "Themes" option. Choose "Modern" from the list of themes displayed and select the OK button on the Preferences dialog.

• Tru64 UNIX®
• Tru64 UNIX® 5.1A or higher is required.
• 64MB RAM minimum, 128 MB RAM is recommended.
• 62MB free disk space on the /usr/opt partition
• Java™ SDK 1.4.1 or later is required when using the Java™ OJI plugin.
• Glib 1.2.10 or higher and Gtk+ 1.2.10 or higher are required only when not using the installed versions of these libraries (i.e when setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
• Also, using the --disable-shm configure option when building your own Gtk+ libraries is recommended.
• Installation Instructions

For all platforms, install into a clean (new) directory. Installing on top of previously released builds may cause problems.

This software is packaged in setld(8) format and includes:


1. IAETHUNDERBIRD - Thunderbird binaries and libraries; Thunderbird Runtime Support (including the gettext 0.11.50, glib 1.2.10, and gtk+ 1.2.10 shared libraries)

Release notes containing information specific to this version of the Thunderbird for Tru64 UNIX® are installed at:


• file:///usr/doc/thunderbird/release_notes.html
• Usage Instructions

The Thunderbird stores user specific application data under the $HOME/.thunderbird directory tree. It is highly recommended that you save a backup of and remove the $HOME/.thunderbird directory tree before running a newly installed version of the Thunderbird EMail and Newsgroup Client.

After the installation has completed successfully, any user can enter the following command from a terminal window or shell prompt to start the Thunderbird EMail and Newsgroup Client:


• /usr/bin/X11/thunderbird

The /usr/bin/X11/thunderbird shell script sets the mandatory environment variables, MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, to the proper values before starting the Thunderbird EMail and Newsgroup Client. If these environment variables are set in the users environment prior to running /usr/bin/X11/thunderbird, they override the default values set by the /usr/bin/X11/thunderbird script. If the optional environment variables, TMPDIR, MOZ_PRINTER_NAME, and MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH are set in the users environment, the /usr/bin/X11/thunderbird shell script export these environment variables to the Thunderbird EMail and Newsgroup Client environment.

Passing the "--help" command line option to the /usr/bin/X11/thunderbird script displays the complete list of available command line options.

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