On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:38:32PM -0000, suem_in_mo wrote:
> I tried to uninstall Lighting and reinstall it. When I do I get the following message. ["Lightning" could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.]
>
At some point, Thunderbird and Lightning were integrated--that is, on
some distributions at least, for example, Fedora, if you installed
Thunderbird, you'd get a calender function.
> So my questions are:
> 1. Has anyone encountered this problem?
Haven't tried to migrate an account from Windows to Linux, so can't
answer that one.
> 2. Is this a bug?
See above. I'm not sure if it's a bug or expected behavior.
> 3. If it is a bug, how do I go about reporting it?
In Linux, and probably in Windows, you'll find that one of the favorite
pastimes is blaming someone else. For example, is the bug Thunderbird's
or Mint's. Report it one place and find them blaming the other unless
you do something like try it on a few different distributions, e.g.,
Fedora, and find that the problem exists in all distributions. Even so,
you might be told to take it up with each distribution's packagers.
Best place to start is to search on Mint and Ubuntu forums--Mint is
derived from Ubuntu, though it has many of its own features, and the
Ubuntu forums are far more populated than the Mint ones.
Also search Thunderbird bug reports. (and possibly Lightning's--I'm not
an expert on either program.) It's certainly possible that others have
experienced it, the question is, what sort of users are most likely to
have done so--my first try would be Ubuntu forums, simply because there
are many Ubuntu users, and Ubuntu is one of the first choices of those
who are trying the switch to Linux from Windows.
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