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Re: [LUG] Lightning shorted

 


On 21/10/2018 20:42, Rod Sheaff wrote:
> Hmm....
> 
> I meantime found the below at
> 
> https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/lightning/reviews/
> 
> The one in German says: 'Ubuntu users... should remove the add-on
> (Lightning); close TB, install the xul-ext-lightning'.
> 
> Maybe that's what's required instead of straight re-install (which
> presumably might have left Lightning as it was)? I wish now I'd written
> down at the time what I did.
> 
> 
> BW
> 
> Rod
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> by Gros_Nolife
> <https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/user/Gros_Nolife/> on
> Oct. 19, 2018 · permalink
> <https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/lightning/reviews/1155414/>
> 
> 
> This add-on should be integrated in Thunderbird because totaly compulsory.
> Since recent upgrade to Thunderbird 60 lightning for Linux doesn't work
> anymore... but thanks to a previous review I didn't lose my appointments !
> The solution is to remove Lightning, then run "sudo apt install
> xul-ext-lightning"
> 
> 
> by Manuel Roth
> <https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/user/ManuelR/> on Oct.
> 18, 2018 · permalink
> <https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/lightning/reviews/1155411/>
> 
> 
> Gutes Kalender-Addon.
> Für Ubuntu-Benutzer, bei denen es seit Thunderbird 60.2.1 wie bei mir
> nicht mehr geht:
> Addon aus Thunderbird entfernen, Thunderbird beenden, per apt das Paket
> "xul-ext-lightning" installieren.
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> On 19/10/2018 18:33, Tom via list wrote:
>> On 19/10/2018 15:22, Rod Sheaff wrote:
>>> I tried that, but when it didn't work I checked that the packages
>>> xul-ext-lightning, xul-ext-calendar-timezones and
>>> xul-ext-gdata-provider were installed. Then I reinstalled
>>> Thunderbird. That seemed to fix it (but I still don't understand why.)
>>>
>>> In case it helps...
>>>
>>> Rod
>>>
>>> On 19/10/2018 10:12, Simon Waters wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 19 October 2018 10:01:39 BST Tom via list wrote:
>>>>> I'm on Xubuntu 18.04.1 and it appears the latest update to thunderbird
>>>>> is not compatible with lighning so I have no idea what to do today!
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone got a similar problem and any idea of a solution?
>>>> You been through this?
>>>>
>>>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/calendar-updates-issues-thunderbird
>>>>
>>>>
>> Done all that and no luck!
>>
>> Tom te tom te tom
>>
>>
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> 

Thanks.
Did it reload the calendar from old install (you removed lightening!) or
did you need to save calendar to file and import after install
'xul-ext-lightning'?

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Eion MacDonald

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