lightning extension does nothing

[Ben Aceler]

After installing lightning-extension and lightning-extension-locale-ru, thunderbird doesn't seem to recognize any additional extension.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lightning-extension 0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 24 11:09:21 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightning-sunbird

[Yazen Ghannam (yghannam-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Ben,

May I ask what version of Thunderbird you are using?

If I'm not mistaken, if you are using Thunderbird 3.0 then you will need Lightning 1.0. The problem is that Mozilla is not officially supporting Lightning on 64-bit Linux operating systems at this time. Also, the package in Ubuntu is Lightning version 0.9 which is not compatible with Thunderbird 3. Since we are only a few days away from the Ubuntu 10.04 release, I doubt that this package will be officially updated and supported.

I just want to also say that I have had the same problem. I'm actually in the process of compiling the Lightning extension from source as I'm typing this. I'll comment back here and see if it works. In the mean time, we can try looking for a PPA with an updated version of Lightning. If there isn't one, then maybe I'll make one. ;)

[Ben Aceler (aceler)]

Oh, I see. Yes, I use thuinderbird 3.0.4 from repository and lightning extension 0.9 from repository also.

I installed lightning 1.0b from contribs from mozilla's ftp site: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1rc1/contrib/linux-x86_64/

It works. So, I think, lightning-extension package in Lucid's repoditory have to be updated, otherwise it's useless.