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Installing Sunbird 0.5 or 0.7 Calendar : Ubuntu 7.10

Update : Since this was written Sunbird 0.7 has been released. The package in the Ubuntu repository is 0.5. Here are steps for manually installing the latest.

Manually Installing Sunbird 0.7

  1. Download the latest version of Sunbird at Mozilla. “Save to Disk”
  2. Unpack the archive into the /opt folder. (sudo tar -C /opt -xjvf ~/Desktop/sunbird-*.tar.bz2)
  3. Create a link: sudo ln -s /opt/sunbird/sunbird /usr/bin/sunbird
  4. Create meu item: sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sunbird.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Sunbird
Comment=Sunbird Calendar
Exec=sunbird
Icon=/opt/sunbird/icons/mozicon128.png
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Applications;Network

Installing Sunbird 0.5

Ubuntu 7.10 now has Mozilla Sunbird Calendar version 0.5 in its repositories. This can be installed using the command:

sudo aptitude install sunbird

For those of you that do a lot of calendaring you may also be interested in Mozilla Calendaring with Lightning, which also supports tie-ins to Google Calendar and seems to be a more popular solution.

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