source: xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml@ 0adc5d50

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  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-http     "http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;-real/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp      "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;-real/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum            "6f76f25894ba746a2e33614d3dd8dbab">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-size              "93 MB">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize         "3 GB (46 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-time              "26 SBU">

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<sect1 id="thunderbird" xreflabel="Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="thunderbird.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="thunderbird">
    <primary sortas="a-Thunderbird">Thunderbird</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Thunderbird</title>

    <para><application>Thunderbird</application> is a stand-alone mail/news
    client based on the <application>Mozilla</application> codebase.</para>

    &lfs70_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &thunderbird-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &thunderbird-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &thunderbird-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &thunderbird-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Thunderbird Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>, <xref linkend="gtk2"/>
    <xref linkend="zip"/> and <xref linkend="unzip"/></para>

    <para>Note: <application>libjpeg</application> and
    <application>libpng</application> (patched for apng support) should have
    been installed before <application>gdk-pixbuf</application> and should
    exist on your system. If for some strange reason you haven&apos;t installed
    them, you should remove the <option>--with-system-jpeg</option> and
    <option>--with-system-png</option> options from the
    <filename>mozconfig</filename> file created below.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
    <xref linkend="doxygen"/>, <xref linkend="gnome-vfs"/> and
    <xref linkend="libgnomeui"/> (for gnome integration),
    <xref linkend="libnotify"/>, <xref linkend="nss"/>, <xref linkend="nspr"/>,
    <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, <xref linkend="sqlite"/>,
    <xref linkend="yasm"/> (or <xref linkend="libvpx"/>),
    <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://libevent.org/">Libevent</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink> (only for testing
    the jemalloc code), and <xref linkend="wget"/></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Thunderbird"/></para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Thunderbird</title>

    <para>The configuration of <application>Thunderbird</application> is
    accomplished by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing
    the desired configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename>
    is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options
    (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue
    <command>./configure --help</command>. Create the file by issuing the
    following command:</para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine you can speed up the build by running
# several jobs at once, but if you have a single core, delete this line:
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4"

# If you have installed Yasm delete this option:
ac_add_options --disable-webm

# If you have installed DBus-Glib delete this option:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# If you have installed wireless-tools delete this option:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# If you have installed libnotify delete this option:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# Uncomment these if you have installed them:
# ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
# ac_add_options --with-system-nss
# ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
# ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
# ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification
# ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
# ac_add_options --with-system-libevent

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/thunderbuild
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
ac_add_options --enable-shared
ac_add_options --disable-static
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-tests
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile <application>Thunderbird</application> by issuing the
    following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's#VPX_CODEC_USE_INPUT_PARTITION#VPX_CODEC_USE_INPUT_FRAGMENTS#' \
  mozilla/configure &amp;&amp;
make -f client.mk &amp;&amp;
make -C thunderbuild/mail/installer</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Install <application>Thunderbird</application> by running the
    following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -p /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version; &amp;&amp;
tar xf thunderbuild/mozilla/dist/thunderbird-*.tar.bz2 -C /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version; --strip-components=1 &amp;&amp;
ln -s ../lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>sed -i 's#VPX_CODEC_USE ...</command>: This fixes
    mozilla&apos;s <command>configure</command> script to properly detect
    libvpx-v1.0.0. This sed is not needed if you have libvpx-v0.9.7 or earlier
    installed or if you&apos;ve not installed <xref linkend="libvpx"/>.</para>

    <para><command>make -f client.mk</command>: Mozilla products are packaged
    to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the
    configuration settings to the <command>configure</command> command.
    <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename>
    file to get initial configuration and setup parameters.</para>

    <para><command>make -C thunderbuild/mail/installer</command>: this runs make
    in the <filename class="directory">thunderbuild/mail/installer</filename>
    folder. This gathers together all the parts of
    <application>Thunderbird</application> and compresses them into a
    tarball.</para>

    <para><command>tar -xfv thunderbuild/mozilla/dist ...</command>: This
    untars <application>Thunderbird</application>, the <option>-C</option>
    option uncompresses the files in
    /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;. The
    <option>--strip-components=1</option> option removes the leading
    &apos;thunderbird&apos; directory from the filenames, allowing us to untar
    it into a versioned directory.<!-- Running <command>make -C thunderbuild
    install</command> would install an additional 480 MB of files--></para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Thunderbird</title>

    <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>If your Window or Desktop Manager does not allow you to configure
      a default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to
      <application>Thunderbird</application> so that a browser will start when
      when you click on an Internet/intranet/local URL. The procedure to check
      or modify any of the configuration parameters is quite simple and the
      instructions here can be used to view or modify any of the
      parameters.</para>

      <para>First, open the configuration dialog by opening the
      <quote>Edit</quote> drop-down menu. Choose <quote>Preferences</quote>
      and then click on the <quote>Advanced</quote> icon on the top menu
      bar. Choose the <quote>General</quote> tab and click on the
      <quote>Config Editor</quote> button. This will display a list of the
      configuration preferences and information related to each one. You can
      use the <quote>Filter:</quote> bar to enter search criteria and narrow
      down the listed items. Changing a preference can be done using two
      methods. One, if the preference has a boolean value (True/False), simply
      double-click on the preference to toggle the value and two, for other
      preferences simply right-click on the desired line, choose
      <quote>Modify</quote> from the menu and change the value. Creating new
      preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose
      <quote>New</quote> from the menu and provide the desired data into the
      fields when prompted.</para>

      <para>The configuration preference item you need to check so that
      <application>Thunderbird</application> uses a specified browser is the
      <parameter>network.protocol-handler.app.http</parameter> which should
      be set to the path of the desired browser, e.g.,
      <option>/usr/bin/firefox</option>.</para>

    <tip>
      <para>There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
      customize <application>Thunderbird</application>. A very extensive, but
      not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at <ulink
      url="http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html"/>.</para>
    </tip>

    <para>If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application>
    or <application>KDE</application> you may wish to create a
    thunderbird.desktop file so that <application>Thunderbird</application>
    appears in the panel&apos;s menus. If you didn&apos;t enable
    startup-notification in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to
    false. As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Thunderbird
Comment=Fetch Your Email
Icon=thunderbird
Exec=thunderbird
Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;News;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
EOF
ln -sv -f /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \
  /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png</userinput></screen>
    </sect3>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>thunderbird</seg>
        <seg>Numerous libraries, email/newsgroups components, plugins,
        extensions, and helper modules installed in <filename
        class="directory">/usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</filename>
        </seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="thunderbird-prog">
        <term><command>thunderbird</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is <application>Mozilla</application>&apos;s next-generation
          email and newsgroup client.</para>
          <indexterm zone="thunderbird thunderbird-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-thunderbird">thunderbird</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>

</sect1>