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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-http "&mozilla-http;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.xz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp " ">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum "75ed6b092a3655cd8d0dfa6754091ced">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY thunderbird-size "509 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize "6.6 GB (233 MB installed)">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY thunderbird-time "9 SBU (on a 8-core machine)">
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| 13 | <!-- Removed the -j1 time because python and rust do not obey it, although
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| 14 | the C/C++ code appears to obey it.
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| 15 |
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| 16 | Version 102.3.3: I disabled all but 4 cores. SBU was 20 (2019 seconds)
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| 17 | -->
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| 18 | ]>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <sect1 id="thunderbird" xreflabel="Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;">
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| 21 | <?dbhtml filename="thunderbird.html" ?>
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| 22 |
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <title>Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</title>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <indexterm zone="thunderbird">
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| 27 | <primary sortas="a-Thunderbird">Thunderbird</primary>
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| 28 | </indexterm>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 31 | <title>Introduction to Thunderbird</title>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>
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| 34 | <application>Thunderbird</application> is a stand-alone mail/news client
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| 35 | based on the <application>Mozilla</application> codebase. It uses the
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| 36 | Gecko rendering engine to enable it to display and compose HTML emails.
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| 37 | </para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | &lfs120_checked;
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 42 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>
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| 45 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-http;"/>
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| 46 | </para>
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| 47 | </listitem>
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| 48 | <listitem>
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| 49 | <para>
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| 50 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-ftp;"/>
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| 51 | </para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>
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| 55 | Download MD5 sum: &thunderbird-md5sum;
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| 56 | </para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>
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| 60 | Download size: &thunderbird-size;
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| 61 | </para>
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| 62 | </listitem>
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| 63 | <listitem>
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| 64 | <para>
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| 65 | Estimated disk space required: &thunderbird-buildsize;
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| 66 | </para>
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| 67 | </listitem>
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| 68 | <listitem>
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| 69 | <para>
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| 70 | Estimated build time: &thunderbird-time;
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| 71 | </para>
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| 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | </itemizedlist>
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| 74 |
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Thunderbird Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 79 | <para role="required">
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| 80 | <xref linkend="cbindgen"/>,
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| 81 | <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
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| 82 | <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
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| 83 | <xref linkend="llvm"/> including clang, <!-- used by default if found -->
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| 84 | <xref linkend="nodejs"/>,
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| 85 | <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/> (or <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/> if you edit
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| 86 | the mozconfig; although it is now deprecated by mozilla),
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| 87 | <xref linkend="python3"/> (rebuilt with the sqlite module),
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| 88 | <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, and
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| 89 | <xref linkend="unzip"/>
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| 90 | <!--<xref linkend="yasm"/>-->
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| 91 | </para>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 94 | <para role="recommended">
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| 95 | <!-- When using system ICU, a problem occurs where the calendar and mail
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| 96 | functions do not render correctly and it causes other strange
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| 97 | behavior to occur. See Ticket #18323 for more details, as well as
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| 98 | https://lore.kernel.org/distributions/075a20b1-869b-78f3-9ace-e106a4d43ac4@linuxlounge.net/T/#u -->
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| 99 | <!--<xref linkend="icu"/>,-->
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| 100 | <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
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| 101 | <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
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| 102 | <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
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| 103 | <xref linkend="nasm"/>,
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| 104 | <xref linkend="nspr"/>, and
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| 105 | <xref linkend="nss"/>
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| 106 | </para>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <note>
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| 109 | <para>
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| 110 | If you don't install recommended dependencies,
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| 111 | then internal copies of those packages will
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| 112 | be used. They might be tested to work, but
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| 113 | they can be out of date or contain security
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| 114 | holes.
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| 115 | </para>
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| 116 | </note>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 119 | <para role="optional">
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| 120 | <!--<xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,-->
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| 121 | <!--<xref linkend="doxygen"/>,-->
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| 122 | <!--<xref linkend="GConf"/>,-->
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| 123 | <xref role="runtime" linkend="pciutils"/> (runtime),
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| 124 | <xref linkend="wget"/>,
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| 125 | <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>, and
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| 126 | <ulink url="https://facebook.github.io/watchman/">watchman</ulink>
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| 127 | </para>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 130 | Editor Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Thunderbird"/>
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| 131 | </para>
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| 132 | </sect2>
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| 133 |
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| 134 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 135 | <title>Installation of Thunderbird</title>
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| 136 |
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| 137 | <note>
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| 138 | <para>
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| 139 | The build process for Thunderbird can use 8GB+ of RAM when linking.
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| 140 | Make sure that you have adequate swap or RAM before continuing.
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| 141 | </para>
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| 142 | </note>
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| 143 |
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| 144 | <para>
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| 145 | The configuration of <application>Thunderbird</application> is
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| 146 | accomplished by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing
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| 147 | the desired configuration options. A default
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| 148 | <filename>mozconfig</filename> is created below. To see the entire list
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| 149 | of available configuration options (and a brief description of each),
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| 150 | issue <command>./mach configure -- --help | less</command>. Create the file with
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| 151 | the following command:
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| 152 | </para>
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| 153 |
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| 154 | <screen><userinput>cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
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| 155 | <literal># If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used.
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| 156 |
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| 157 | # If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line:
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| 158 | ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
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| 159 |
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| 160 | # Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio
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| 161 | #ac_add_options --enable-audio-backends=alsa
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| 162 |
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| 163 | # Comment out following options if you have not installed
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| 164 | # recommended dependencies:
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| 165 | ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
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| 166 | ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
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| 167 | ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
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| 168 | ac_add_options --with-system-nss
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| 169 | ac_add_options --with-system-webp
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| 170 |
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| 171 | # The elf-hack causes failed installs on some machines.
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| 172 | # It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks libxul.so
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| 173 | # by a few MB - comment this if you know your machine is not affected.
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| 174 | ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
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| 175 |
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| 176 | # The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
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| 177 | ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
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| 178 | ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/mail
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| 179 |
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| 180 | ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
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| 181 | ac_add_options --disable-updater
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| 182 | ac_add_options --disable-debug
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| 183 | ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols
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| 184 | ac_add_options --disable-tests
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| 185 |
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| 186 | ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2
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| 187 | ac_add_options --enable-linker=gold
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| 188 | ac_add_options --enable-strip
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| 189 | ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
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| 190 |
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| 191 | ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
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| 192 |
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| 193 | ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
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| 194 | ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
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| 195 |
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| 196 | ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
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| 197 | ac_add_options --with-system-png
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| 198 | ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
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| 199 |
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| 200 | # Using sandboxed wasm libraries has been moved to all builds instead
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| 201 | # of only mozilla automation builds. It requires extra llvm packages
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| 202 | # and was reported to seriously slow the build. Disable it.
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| 203 | ac_add_options --without-wasm-sandboxed-libraries</literal>
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| 204 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <para>
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| 207 | Now invoke the Python <command>mach</command> script to compile
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| 208 | <application>Thunderbird</application>:
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| 209 | </para>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <note>
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| 212 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 213 | href="../../xincludes/mozshm.xml"/>
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| 214 |
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| 215 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 216 | href="../../xincludes/mozmach.xml"/>
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| 217 |
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| 218 | </note>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | <screen><userinput>export MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none &&
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| 221 | export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=./mozbuild &&
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| 222 | ./mach configure &&
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| 223 | ./mach build</userinput></screen>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <para>
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| 226 | This package does not come with a test suite.
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| 227 | </para>
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| 228 |
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| 229 | <para>
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| 230 | Install <application>Thunderbird</application> by running the following
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| 231 | commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 232 | </para>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <screen role="root"><userinput>MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none ./mach install</userinput></screen>
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| 235 | <!-- devs: For DESTDIR install, prepend DESTDIR=<dest> to the above -->
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| 236 | <para>
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| 237 | Empty the environment variables which were set above:
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| 238 | </para>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | <screen><userinput>unset MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH</userinput></screen>
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| 241 |
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| 242 | </sect2>
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| 243 |
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| 244 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 245 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 246 |
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| 247 | <para>
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| 248 | <command>MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none</command>: Use the
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| 249 | system python to create a virtual environment for <command>mach</command>
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| 250 | without downloading any python wheels nor using the system python modules.
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| 251 | This prevent version mismatches between system modules and bundled ones.
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| 252 | </para>
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| 253 |
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| 254 | <para>
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| 255 | <command>./mach configure</command>: This validates the supplied
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| 256 | dependencies and the <filename>mozconfig</filename>.
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| 257 | </para>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | <para>
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| 260 | <option>./mach build --verbose</option>: Use this alternative if you
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| 261 | need details of which files are being compiled, together with any C or
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| 262 | C++ flags being used.
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| 263 | </para>
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| 264 |
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| 265 | <para>
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| 266 | <option>./mach build -jN</option>: The build should, by default, use
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| 267 | all the online CPU cores. If using all the cores causes the build to swap
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| 268 | because you have insufficient memory, using fewer cores can be faster.
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| 269 | </para>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <para>
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| 272 | <option><envar>CC=gcc CXX=g++</envar></option>: BLFS used to
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| 273 | prefer to use gcc and g++ instead of upstream's defaults of the
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| 274 | <application>clang</application> programs. With the release of
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| 275 | gcc-12 the build takes longer with gcc and g++, primarily because
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| 276 | of extra warnings, and is bigger. Set these environment variables
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| 277 | <emphasis>before you run the configure script</emphasis>
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| 278 | if you wish to continue to use gcc, g++. Building
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| 279 | with GCC on i?86 is currently broken.
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| 280 | </para>
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| 281 |
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| 282 | </sect2>
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| 283 |
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| 284 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 285 | <title>Configuring Thunderbird</title>
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| 286 |
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| 287 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 288 |
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| 289 | <para>
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| 290 | If your Window Manager or Desktop Environment does not allow you to
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| 291 | configure a default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to
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| 292 | <application>Thunderbird</application> so that a browser will start when
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| 293 | you click on an Internet/intranet/local URL. The procedure to check
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| 294 | or modify any of the configuration parameters is quite simple and the
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| 295 | instructions here can be used to view or modify any of the parameters.
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| 296 | </para>
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| 297 |
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| 298 | <para>
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| 299 | First, open the configuration dialog by opening the <quote>Edit</quote>
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| 300 | drop-down menu. Choose <quote>Preferences</quote> and then scroll down
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| 301 | to the bottom of the page. Then, click the <quote>Config Editor</quote>
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| 302 | button. Click on the <quote>I accept the risk!</quote> button.
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| 303 | This will display a list of the configuration preferences and
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| 304 | information related to each one. You can use the <quote>Filter:</quote>
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| 305 | bar to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing
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| 306 | a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a
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| 307 | boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to
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| 308 | toggle the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on
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| 309 | the desired line, choose <quote>Modify</quote> from the menu and change
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| 310 | the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same
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| 311 | way, except choose <quote>New</quote> from the menu and provide the
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| 312 | desired data into the fields when prompted.
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| 313 | </para>
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| 314 |
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| 315 | <para>
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| 316 | The configuration preference item you need to check so that
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| 317 | <application>Thunderbird</application> uses a specified browser is the
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| 318 | <parameter>network.protocol-handler.app.http</parameter> which should be
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| 319 | set to the path of the desired browser, e.g.
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| 320 | <option>/usr/bin/firefox</option>.
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| 321 | </para>
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| 322 | <!-- Bad URL
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| 323 | <tip>
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| 324 | <para>
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| 325 | There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
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| 326 | customize <application>Thunderbird</application>. A very extensive,
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| 327 | but not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at
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| 328 | <ulink url="http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html"/>.
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| 329 | </para>
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| 330 | </tip>
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| 331 | -->
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| 332 | <para>
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| 333 |
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| 334 | If you use a desktop environment such as <application>GNOME</application>
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| 335 | or <application>KDE</application>, a desktop file
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| 336 | <filename>thunderbird.desktop</filename> may be created, in order to
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| 337 | include a <quote><application>Thunderbird</application></quote> entry in
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| 338 | the menu. <!--If you didn't enable
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| 339 | <application>startup-notification</application> in your mozconfig, then
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| 340 | change the StartupNotify line to false.--> Run the following commands as the
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| 341 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 342 |
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| 343 | </para>
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| 344 |
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| 345 | <screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} &&
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| 346 |
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| 347 | cat > /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop << "EOF" &&
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| 348 | <literal>[Desktop Entry]
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| 349 | Name=Thunderbird Mail
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| 350 | Comment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird
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| 351 | GenericName=Mail Client
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| 352 | Exec=thunderbird %u
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| 353 | Terminal=false
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| 354 | Type=Application
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| 355 | Icon=thunderbird
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| 356 | Categories=Network;Email;
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| 357 | MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
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| 358 | StartupNotify=true</literal>
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| 359 | EOF
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| 360 |
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| 361 | ln -sfv /usr/lib/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \
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| 362 | /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png</userinput></screen>
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| 363 | </sect3>
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| 364 | </sect2>
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| 365 |
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| 366 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 367 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 368 |
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| 369 | <segmentedlist>
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| 370 | <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
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| 371 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 372 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 373 |
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| 374 | <seglistitem>
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| 375 | <seg>
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| 376 | thunderbird
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| 377 | </seg>
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| 378 | <seg>
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| 379 | Numerous libraries and modules in the /usr/lib/thunderbird directory
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| 380 | </seg>
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| 381 | <seg>
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| 382 | /usr/lib/thunderbird
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| 383 | </seg>
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| 384 | </seglistitem>
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| 385 | </segmentedlist>
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| 386 |
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| 387 | <variablelist>
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| 388 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 389 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 390 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 391 |
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| 392 | <varlistentry id="thunderbird-prog">
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| 393 | <term><command>thunderbird</command></term>
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| 394 | <listitem>
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| 395 | <para>
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| 396 | is <application>Mozilla</application>'s email and newsgroup client
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| 397 | </para>
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| 398 | <indexterm zone="thunderbird thunderbird-prog">
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| 399 | <primary sortas="b-thunderbird">thunderbird</primary>
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| 400 | </indexterm>
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| 401 | </listitem>
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| 402 | </varlistentry>
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| 403 |
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| 404 | </variablelist>
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| 405 |
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| 406 | </sect2>
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| 407 |
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| 408 | </sect1>
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