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Ubuntu 8.04 Thunderbird Installation Problems

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bst-softwaredevs.com; By Herschel Cohen
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In hindsight it might have been smarter for me to have moved my older version of Thunderbird onto the new desktop, then upgraded [1.] However, I noted that the new version offered by Ubuntu was two minor number versions later. Hence, I installed the newer Thunderbird and then copied over the entire dot thunderbird directory for my email user identity and the entire coded default content further down. To my dismay, nothing worked after I misinterpreted an installation option that might have saved me from a tremendous amount of harassment, I made the situation worse. The situation became so dire, I thought my only option was to kill the entire installation of Ubuntu 8.04 and start afresh [2.].

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