How to install?

[somerandomdude]

I am a total and complete n00b. I'm spoiled rotten with Windows .exe files and installation wizards. SO, I just switched to SUSE 9.1 yesterday. I want to install Mozilla Thunderbird. How do you install programs?

[Hayl]

we have a help file library here ( http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/ ) that has info which explains how to install software.

you also can get rpm files which are packages and use them for easy installation of software.

there should also be help available in the docs that came with SuSE and/or available on their website.

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Thanks.

[rbrimhall]

OK... I don't use Suse but here's how to install the download from mozilla.org

Open a terminal:

tar -xzf name-of-file (extracts file)

su (switches to super-user or root)

enter root password

mv thunderbird /usr/local (moves the dir your extracted to /usr/local)

cd /usr/local/bin (where the thunderbird executable will be launched)

ln -s /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird thunderbird (linking the executable in the thunderbird folder so you can just type thunderbird instead of /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird)

exit (switches back to your normal user account)

type in thunderbird to the terminal (launches the program you just installed)

Then, you just create a launcher for your desktop, menu, or whatever named Thunderbird that executes "thunderbird"

Hope that makes sense:D