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Linux system install instructions need update

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Now that Thunderbird is delivered in .xz archives, not .bz2, the Linux system install instructions need updating. The extract command in Step 3 should be:

tar xJf thunderbird-*.tar.xz

note the upper-case J instead of lower-case which is used for .bz2

Now that Thunderbird is delivered in .xz archives, not .bz2, the Linux system install instructions need updating. The extract command in Step 3 should be: tar xJf thunderbird-*.tar.xz note the upper-case J instead of lower-case which is used for .bz2

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Thanks for the heads up.

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Ed
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Thanks, TB staff notified.

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Thanks for the heads up.

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Wayne Mery said
Thanks for the heads up.

This has been done, plus additional changes.

In the future, you can make changes yourself at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/installing-thunderbird-linux. Or, poke by posting at the related article discussion https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/installing-thunderbird-linux/discuss/.

We'd love to have your involvement.

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