This build of Mozilla ThunderBird 0.5 was produced on a sparc-sun-solaris2.8 platform. If you encounter any problem with the package, you may contact Roland Mainz This build was made from the source obtained from the THUNDERBIRD_0_5_RELEASE CVS branch. Installation notes: * This build requires the GTK+v2 toolkit as used by the Solaris Gnome Desktop. You have to install Solaris Gnome Desktop as available from http://www.sun.com/software/gnome/ THIS BUILD WILL _NOT_ WORK WITHOUT the Solaris Gnome Desktop being installed. If you do not have Solaris Gnome installed you may use the FireFox GTK+v1 build available under http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/contrib/firefox-0.8-sparc-sun-solaris2.8-ctl-svg.tar.gz * A full list of installation requirements can be found in the 1.6 release notes (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.6/installation-ports.html#ports_solaris). * Please make sure you have all the REQUIRED patches and packages (as listed in http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.6/installation-ports.html#ports_solaris) installed _before_ starting Mozilla. * This build supports CTL (Complex Text Layout) as required to render languages and scripts like Thai/Tamil/etc. correctly See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199857 for further details. * This build does not include the Java bundle. You will need to set up the link yourself in order to have Java support. See example below: $ cd /plugins $ ln -s /jre/plugin/sparc/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so You can install the latest version of Java from http://java.sun.com At least Java 1.4.x is required. * Printing is supported via Xprint (see http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4rc3/index.html#xprint) xprint.mozdev.org provides various Solaris packages including "GISWxprint" and "GISWxprintglue", for people without (root) permission to install packages the plain tarballs are provided, an alternative prodecure is described in Sun InfoDoc #ID71966 about the same issue (see http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=finfodoc%2F71966 - "How to add printers to Netscape[TM] and Mozilla[TM]?"). * Error messages like -- snip --- ld.so.1: ./mozilla-bin: fatal: relocation error: file ./mozilla-bin: symbol gtk_init: referenced symbol not found Killed -- snip --- indicate that the runtime linker was not able to find the GTK+v2 libraries which are part of the Solaris Gnome desktop distribution. Please install the Solaris Gnome desktop before using this build. -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 2426 901568 FAX +49 2426 901569 (;O/ \/ \O;)