Configuration Of The Thunderbird And Adding Of Lightning Extention In Ubuntu

How to install and configure the Thunderbird and add lightning extention to the calender ?
Ans : Thunderbird is an excelent e-mail client known in open source world other popular e-mail client is evolution. As of this writing TB3 is still in beta phase so we will see how to install Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 on Ubuntu 9.10.

Step1 : Edit the source list to point the mozilla reposatory and add the below mention reposatories at the end of the file.
#gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
save and exit the file

Step2 : Update the reposatory list, that your system knows from where we should download thunderbird and install it
#apt-get update

Step3 : Now install mozilla with apt-get command
#apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
Reading package lists. Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information. Done

The following extra packages will be installed:
thunderbird
Suggested packages:
thunderbird-gnome-support

The following NEW packages will be installed:
mozilla-thunderbird thunderbird
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 192 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 36.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Get : 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main thunderbird 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [12.1MB]

Get : 2 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [62.0kB]
Fetched 12.2MB in 1min 52s (108kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package thunderbird.
(Reading database ... 114241 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking thunderbird (from .../thunderbird_2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mozilla-thunderbird.
Unpacking mozilla-thunderbird (from .../mozilla-thunderbird_2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up thunderbird (2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mozilla-thunderbird (2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Step4 : To access newly installed Thunderbird go to Applications--> Internet --> Mozilla thunderbird mail.

Step5 : Now configure and add the lightning extention for getting calender.

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Ubuntu Right Click To Open A Terminal

In most of the linux machins terminal option will be there on right clicking on desktop. But strangely in Ubuntu there is no such fecility.

For admins/power users who are using linux require terminal/console access with easy. So in this post i will show you how to right click terminal option in ubuntu. Just execute below command you terminal is there on your right click of the mouse.
apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal
Once this installed try to check if you are able to get terminal option on right clicking on desktop, if you didnot get any such option just restart the machine and check. You will get the terminal option.

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Commands On Commands

I thought of writing a post on some good comamnds which are capable of running on other commands.

With my knowledge i tried to gather below commands, please share your thoughts/experiences through comments.

1.strace -- very much handy when debugging a command/script which will struck in middle of execution. This command will be tough when you start using it initially, but will come hand when start using excessively. And there are some more sister commands for this ie ltrace mtrace which i never used, please give some inputs on these.

For example if we want to see how ls command is executed and want to see what actually ls command is doing? you can check that out by using strace
#strace ls

2.watch --used to see a command executino at a regular intervels(by default 2 sec)

Some valuable examples

a.Monitoring a copy activity of CD/DVD, which will show the progress.
#cp -ar /dev/cdrom /mnt &
#watch ls -l /mnt

b.Watching who are connecting to a system and disconnecting
#watch lsof -i

3.time --To see how much time a command taken to execute, This a handy tool when you want to check how much time your shell script taken to execute.
#time ls
#time shellscript.sh

4.whereis --to find where a command located
#whereis ls

5.whatis --to get one line info on a command
#whatis ls

And a well known man command and info commands to see the details of a command what it can do.
#man ls
#info ls

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