[SWLUG] Backup Backup then Upgrade Ubuntu!

[Pete Prior]

What do you get on the console when you try to start thunderbird from 
there ?

Try doing a sudo apt-get -f install to check there are no packages 
waiting to be installed / configured...

Pete

Matt Willsher wrote:
> ilyan wrote:
>> Then I did an upgrade, clicked to say to keep the setup I had.  But have
>> lost the Thunderbird.   "Failed to execute child process Mozilla
>> Thunderbird ("no such file or directory")" comes up when I click on the
>> little black square that now appears where Thunderbird used to be.
>> Though now I seem to have turned that black into a tray on a spring.
>>
>> Is that likely to be a fatal loss of back emails and addresses?
> Hopefully not! If your home directory is otherwise intact you are 
> probably fine :)
> 
>>    any suggestions for recovery?
>>   
> A few things to try:
> 
> Check under the main menu and Internet (sorry, from memory - it might be 
> under another menu) - is it there?
> If not,  have you check the Synaptic package manager for Thunderbird? If 
> it saying it's installed try uninstalling (purge if you can) then reinstall.
> 
> 
> Matt
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