MX-19 Repository: The Thunderbird Thread

[Eadwine Rose]

Installed it and working fine :)

Much easier to pick what to monitor!


Only one thing doesn't work right, when I have selected the folders to monitor and then want to go and add another, those that have already been added are not checked in the selection screen.

That will likely get fixed in the next update I am sure.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Just to make it clear, firetray/xul-ext-firetray only works with thunderbird releases <= 60.*. If you want an email notifier (in the notification area of your panel) for thunderbird, you need to install birdtray >= version 1.6.

[Eadwine Rose]

Thank you mmikeinsantarosa

[Eadwine Rose]

Just upgraded TB and lightning from the test repo in MXPI to 68.4.1.

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Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Ign:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease
Hit:6 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Get:8 https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/Debian_10.0 ./ InRelease [1,302 B]
Hit:9 http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster InRelease
Hit:10 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster InRelease
Get:11 http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo buster InRelease [4,966 B]
Hit:12 https://keepersecurity.com/desktop_electron/Linux/repo/deb stable InRelease
Hit:13 https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie InRelease
Get:15 http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo buster/test i386 Packages [323 kB]
Get:16 http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo buster/test amd64 Packages [329 kB]
Fetched 657 kB in 3s (253 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Suggested packages:
  calendar-google-provider apparmor
The following packages will be upgraded:
  lightning thunderbird
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 88 not upgraded.
Need to get 37.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 129 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo buster/test amd64 lightning all 2:68.4.1-1~mx19+1 [887 kB]
Get:2 http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo buster/test amd64 thunderbird amd64 2:68.4.1-1~mx19+1 [36.3 MB]
Fetched 37.2 MB in 3s (10.8 MB/s)
(Reading database ... 298566 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../lightning_2%3a68.4.1-1~mx19+1_all.deb ...
Unpacking lightning (2:68.4.1-1~mx19+1) over (2:68.3.1-1~mx19+1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../thunderbird_2%3a68.4.1-1~mx19+1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking thunderbird (2:68.4.1-1~mx19+1) over (2:68.3.1-1~mx19+1) ...
Setting up lightning (2:68.4.1-1~mx19+1) ...
Setting up thunderbird (2:68.4.1-1~mx19+1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-4) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.62) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease
Ign:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:6 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Get:8 https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/Debian_10.0 ./ InRelease [1,302 B]
Hit:9 http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster InRelease
Hit:10 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster InRelease
Hit:11 https://keepersecurity.com/desktop_electron/Linux/repo/deb stable InRelease
Hit:12 https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie InRelease
Fetched 1,302 B in 2s (792 B/s)
Reading package lists...

Restarted and it indeed upgraded, but the calendar is now missing. I had to disable lightning in the addons, then add it again via the addons menu, and then enabled lightning and restarted TB again.

Bit of a nuisance, but now it's working again.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Eadwine,
I too have had issues upgrading thunderbird and having initial problems with lightning/calendar.
I've upgraded my laptop preserving home since MX15 and finally with buster. Recently my laptop became unstable so instead I backed my data up and installed Mx19 from scratch. This time thunderbird-68.3.1 installed with calendar working. After sending 68.4.1 up and upgrading to it today, calendar still worked.

From this experience, I'd have to assume that perhaps some bits from older tb installs have been interfering with newer tb upgrades on this laptop. Like I said, installing on a clean MX19 produced a problematic TB for me for 2 upgrades.

- mike

[Eadwine Rose]

I DID bring the .thunderbird folder along, yes. But I had to manually add lightning when I upgraded first. Given all that was now in order I assumed it would be fine when upgrading from the former 68 to the current.

There is just NO way that I am going to start with a clean profile.. too many mails in there We'll see how the next upgrade fares.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

I DID bring the .thunderbird folder along, yes. But I had to manually add lightning when I upgraded first. Given all that was now in order I assumed it would be fine when upgrading from the former 68 to the current.

There is just NO way that I am going to start with a clean profile.. too many mails in there We'll see how the next upgrade fares.

First, I backed up all my data to an external drive before overwriting the disk. I drug my .thunderbird folder along too after I installed overwriting everything from scratch. I used an ISO steveo remastered that had some extra packaging parts on it. It did not have thunderbird installed after getting to its first desktop. So the first version that system saw was 68.3.1(mx19+1) and the upgrade to 68.4.1(mx19+1) didn't effect calendar. I think it must be leftover parts from the 60 series of thunderbird. I could purge all tb from a VM and install 68.4.1 and wait to try the next release after we build it to see if that one also leaves calendar alone. We heavily tweak TB from debian before putting it in our repos so the 68.3.1 from debian might not be a perfect test to start from but might as well be included to see what happens.

[Eadwine Rose]

Wait and see.. I'll be taking that folder along again when an update happens. Will let you know how that works out :)

[Gaer Boy]

Today's updates included Thunderbird/Lightning 68.4.1. The calendar was missing after restarting Thunderbird but reinstalling the add-on solved that. However, printouts of the calendar no longer show the event colours, making the calendar very difficult to read. I've tried all printing options with no luck.

Any ideas before I downgrade to the previous version?

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Today's updates included Thunderbird/Lightning 68.4.1. The calendar was missing after restarting Thunderbird but reinstalling the add-on solved that. However, printouts of the calendar no longer show the event colours, making the calendar very difficult to read. I've tried all printing options with no luck.

Any ideas before I downgrade to the previous version?

Not off hand but did your system ever have any thunderbird < 68.3 on it?
The reason I ask is that I recently installed MX19 on a pristine hard drive where the 1st tb it saw was 68.3.1 and I have not seen any calendar problems yet. Before this I installed over previous versions of MX preserving home. Every new TB after the 60.n series on this system had an initial calendar issue. Although each new calendar issue was resolvable.

Are you saying that the colors show up on the screen but not on paper? Have you tried printing to .pdf to see if the colors show up there?

- mike