Download Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Sparc & Solaris

A day after the MacOS X, Linux and Windows release of Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4, the makers have released the version for Sun, Solaris and Sparc systems compiled† The mail client can retrieve and send mail via IMAP and POP. This release is baked from the source of the 0.4. The next release notes are available:

Installation notes:

• A full list of installation requirements can be found in the 1.6a release notes (
• Please make sure you have all the REQUIRED patches and packages (as listed in installed _before_ starting Mozilla.
• This build supports CTL (Complex Text Layout) as required to render languages ​​and scripts like Thai/Tamil/etc. correctly See for further details.
• This build does not include the Java bundle. You will need to set up the link yourself in order to have Java support. See example below:
  % cd /plugins
  % ln -s /jre/plugin/sparc/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so

  You can install the latest version of Java from http://java.sun.com
  At least Java 1.4.x is required.

• Printing is supported via Xprint (see xprint.mozdev.org provides various resources including Solaris packages (including “GISWxprint” and “GISWxprintglue”, for people without permission to install packages the plain binary+source tarballs are provided), a bug reporting facility, support forum and various other services.
• Error messages like
  — snip —
  ld.so.1: /projects/mozilla/relbuild16a/dist/bin/mozilla-1.6a/mozilla-bin:
  fatal: relocation error: file
  /projects/mozilla/relbuild16a/dist/bin/mozilla-1.6a/mozilla-bin: symbol
  gtk_set_locale: referenced symbol not found
  Killed
  — snip —
  indicate that the runtime linker was not able to find the GTK+ libraries. Please set LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include these libs. Example (for ksh/dtksh/bash; assuming that GTK+ libs reside in /usr/local/lib/): % (LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ ./mozilla)
• Build details can be obtained via about:buildconfig