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[BrianO'Keefe]

An update. This site has pre-built ppc Lightning extension:
http://gopalarathnam.com/software/
I installed it and it works. I don't yet know how to use it but I will!

BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> thanks for the reply. I already have thunderbird installed and wanted
> the Lightning extension. The goal is to get calendaring to work as I
> crapped my Sunbird calendar. I have no wish to install from source but
> being on a Mac ppc leaves me no choice as the Lightning extension
> doesn't exist for ppc as a friendly .xpi installable like some others
> do, like spamato for instance, which works great.
>  My big long post of a few days ago details the early demise of my
> sunbird calendar and unjoy of building from source!
> Hopefully that answers your query?
> Brian
>
> Sam Noble wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:59 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Another question, can anyone help in installing Lightning for
>>> thunderbird from source? I had gotten Sunbird installed but have
>>> screwed
>>> that all up and haven't had any luck reinstalling it from source. the
>>> mozilla build instructions are not easy for me and they don't use
>>> standard "/configure && make && make install". I would really like to
>>> get a calendar back. 
>>>     
>>>       
>> Do you want to build Thunderbird from source or the Lightning extension?
>> Also, why? Is the goal to get calendaring to 'work' or did you want to
>> play with the latest CVS pull?
>> I'd not heard of the lightning extension until you asked, but installing
>> it into the default icedove (thunderbird) on my debian system took all
>> of 40 seconds or so. (plus googling it.)
>>
>> sam
>>
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