For whatever reason the 2g eee PC doesn’t come with an email client installed. Plenty of links to different webmail sites – but no client.
I hunted around and found some super easy instructions for getting Thunderbird on to your eee PC.
First open a terminal window. To do so hit Control – Alt – T.
In the terminal window type: sudo synaptic
That will bring up the synaptic manager. Go to Settings and then Repositories. On the repository screen you want to change everything that says 700 to read 701.
Save your changes in synaptic then hit reload. Then exit synaptic. You should be back to your terminal window.
In the terminal type: sudo apt-get install thunderbird
Next you will need to download an update fix. After Thunderbird is finished and you are back at the terminal window prompt, type:
sudo apt-get install eeepc-updatepack-20071126
That’s it. You will now have a Mail icon on your Work tab.
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OK, did that on a 2GB EEEPC. Thunderbird is now installed, but it gets a segmentation fault on every launch. Error message is:
/usr/lib/run-mozilla.sh line 131 1916 Segmentation fault “$prog ${1+”$@”}
And yes, “eeepc-update-pack20071126″ is installed.
Thanks for the info, it worked well once, after a crash not as well.
Finally I made it work, probably me, not the directions.
I had trouble with the set up of Thunderbird in that the screens to input mail servers had tabs like “next” below what I could see on my screen, with no way to scan down to find the “next” to click on it.
My solution was to install “vga utility”. This tool lets you pan down to info that is off the screen, so it can be acted on.
Thanks again,
Bill g