This is my experience that i would like to share with all of you, in case it could help someone.
I tried to install thunderbird-1.0 on my system - Red Hat 9 (Fedora Legacy), i started with tar file but then it
was accessible to the root user only, even i tried making link as
[root@bimal root]# cd /usr/local [root@bimal local]# tar -xvzf /tmp/thunderbird-1_0/thunderbird-1.0.tar.gz [root@bimal local]# cd thunderbird [root@bimal thunderbird]# ln -sf /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird/usr/bin/
now, i switched as normal user and tried to execute thunderbird
[root@bimal thunderbird]# su - bimal [bimal@bimalserver bimal]$ thunderbird Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified (thunderbird-bin:9100): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: [bimal@bimalserver bimal]$
i could have overcome this too, as
[root@bimal thunderbird]# xhost +localhost
but that's not the solution!!( i think..., you know this is 'X' and security!!), so again i tried to
search the net and came accross an excellent site(tutorial)
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/ by Mr.Thomas Chung,
i tried it as per his suggestions but since i did all these as a root user,
while here i have also given a solution as how to buid the same
package without root, of course to install rpm package you need to be the root user!
here is what and how i have done all this...
NOTE:- 1) all my packages are in /tmp directory so i am refering as of it. 2) packages used are thunderbird-1.0.tar.gz thunderbird.png thunderbird.desktop thunderbird.spec one can had thunderbird.png, thunderbird.desktop, thunderbird.spec files from http://fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/ by Mr.Thomas Chung 3) build on RedHat 9
PART - I - AS A ROOT
here i have taken an example of creating this rpm package as superuser "root"
so you need to login as root, on a terminal do as...
[root@bimal temp]# vi thunderbird.specand changed "Release : 0.FC1" to "Release : 0.rh9" so that you will get a package named as
[root@bimal temp]# cp thunderbird-1.0.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ [root@bimal temp]# cp thunderbird.png /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ [root@bimal temp]# cp thunderbird.desktop /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ [root@bimal temp]# cp thunderbird.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ [root@bimal temp]# rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/thunderbird.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.58027 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + LANG=C + export LANG + rm -rf /var/tmp/thunderbird-1.0-buildroot + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + rm -rf thunderbird-1.0 + /bin/mkdir -p thunderbird-1.0 + cd thunderbird-1.0 + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/thunderbird-1.0.tar.gz + tar -xf - ..omitted.. Processing files: thunderbird-1.0-0.rh9 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/thunderbird-1.0-buildroot Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/thunderbird-1.0-0.rh9.src.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/thunderbird-1.0-0.rh9.i386.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61716 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd thunderbird-1.0 + rm -rf /var/tmp/thunderbird-1.0-buildroot + exit 0 [root@bimal temp]#so this will create a rpm package in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ directory while src.rpm in
PART - II - AS A GENERAL USER
here i have taken an example of creating this rpm package as a general user "bimal"
so you need to login as your own user account, on a terminal do as...
[bimal@bimal bimal]$ mkdir rpm [bimal@bimal bimal]$ cd rpm [bimal@bimal bimal]$ mkdir SOURCES SPECS BUILD RPMS RPMS/i386 SRPMS
create a file ".rpmmacros" in the home directory with the entry as shown
[bimal@bimal bimal]$ vi .rpmmacros %_topdir /home/bimal/rpm [bimal@bimal bimal]$ cd /tmp [bimal@bimal temp]$ vi thunderbird.spec
and changed "Release : 0.FC1" to "Release : 0.rh9"
[bimal@bimal temp]$ cp thunderbird.spec /home/bimal/rpm/SPECS/ [bimal@bimal temp]$ cp thunderbird.desktop /home/bimal/rpm/SOURCES/ [bimal@bimal temp]$ cp thunderbird.png /home/bimal/rpm/SOURCES/ [bimal@bimal temp]$ cp thunderbird-1.0.tar.gz /home/bimal/rpm/SOURCES/ [bimal@bimal temp]$ rpmbuild -ba /home/bimal/rpm/SPECS/thunderbird.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62736 + umask 022 + cd /home/bimal/rpm/BUILD + LANG=C + export LANG + rm -rf /var/tmp/thunderbird-1.0-buildroot + cd /home/bimal/rpm/BUILD + rm -rf thunderbird-1.0 + /bin/mkdir -p thunderbird-1.0 + cd thunderbird-1.0 + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /home/bimal/rpm/SOURCES/thunderbird-1.0.tar.gz + tar -xf - ..omitted.. Processing files: thunderbird-1.0-0.rh9 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/thunderbird-1.0-buildroot Wrote: /home/bimal/rpm/SRPMS/thunderbird-1.0-0.rh9.src.rpm Wrote: /home/bimal/rpm/RPMS/i386/thunderbird-1.0-0.rh9.i386.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.27873 + umask 022 + cd /home/bimal/rpm/BUILD + cd thunderbird-1.0 + rm -rf /var/tmp/thunderbird-1.0-buildroot + exit 0 [bimal@bimal temp]$so this will create a rpm package in /home/bimal/rpm/RPMS/i386/ directory while
now to install this rpm package do as(needs root access)
[root@bimal temp]# rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/thunderbird-1.0-0.rh9.i386.rpm
OR
[root@bimal temp]# rpm -ivh /home/bimal/rpm/RPMS/i386/thunderbird-1.0-0.rh9.i386.rpm
now this package(thunderbird-1.0) is available to all i mean to any common/general user!!
To check this out, login as normal user(gui mode), click on
redhat(main/start icon) --> Internet --> Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Client
in the last, many many thanks to FedoraNEWS.ORG team especially to Mr.Thomas Chung
and please dont forget to visit this site http://fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/
it has got a lot of important/useful tutorials for duffers like me.
So... Got it, OK, enjoy!!!
Bimal Pandit
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