Sunbird Installation

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Overview

This How To outlines the installation of Mozilla Sunbird version 0.3.1rc2 on Ubuntu Breezy/Feisty. We are going to install Sunbird in the /opt directory.

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Download and Install

From your terminal:

cd /opt

Changes us into the /opt directory

sudo wget -c ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/releases/0.3.1rc2/linux-i686/en-US/sunbird-0.3.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

downloads Sunbird to your /opt folder

sudo tar -xvf sunbird-0.3.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

this extracts Sunbird into a new Sunbird folder in the /opt directory

sudo chown -R root:root /opt/sunbird/

this changes the sunbird folder owner to root

sudo gedit /usr/bin/sunbird.sh

Now we're placing a file in /usr/bin/ that tells the OS how to start sunbird
Place the following text into the new document

cd /opt/sunbird/
./sunbird

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sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/sunbird.sh

this changes our sunbird.sh file to an executable

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sunbird.desktop

Now we're creating the icon in your Applicaitons menu
Place the following text in the new file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sunbird
Comment=Calendar Application
Exec=sunbird.sh
Icon=/opt/sunbird/chrome/icons/default/default.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Office;

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