Revert to previous version of Thunderbird ?

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#1

Hi,

Any idea how I can revert to the previous working version of Thunderbird ? Unfortunately the various download mirrors don’t seem to keep older packages. The current TB is seriously buggy and downright unusable.

Cheers.

#2

You are posting it in openSUSE forums and tagged question with Leap 15.1. All updated versions released for 15.1 starting with GA are available; you can revert to any previous released version and lock it.

More specific answer needs more specific question.

#3

For Leap 15.1, they should be there.

Click on the “Versions” tab in Yast software management.

#4

OK, so I finally managed to get a sane Thunderbird back. I stand corrected, because the OpenSUSE updates mirrors do keep subsequent RPM versions, so I simply downloaded the next to last in line and installed it using rpm -ivh .

The update also wrecked my configuration in ~/.thunderbird. Fortunately I have a local Rsnapshot server running, so I fetched yesterday’s ~/.thunderbird, and everything was fine.

Since I have absolutely no time to deal with this, I locked the app for the time being.

#5

@microlinux:

Using YaST, the following Thunderbird versions are listed: 68.1.1; 60.8.0; 60.7.2; 60.7.0; 60.6.1.

  • “zypper search --details --match-exact MozillaThunderbird” delivers the same information.

IMHO needs less time an effort than searching the update mirrors …

#6

The latest 60.x.x version is 60.9.0, and the latest 68.x.x is 68.1.2

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.9.0/releasenotes/

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.1.2/releasenotes/

#7

Correct but, not for the openSUSE distribution – it normally takes a little bit of time before the source code passes through the openSUSE Build Service and, the associated openQA process <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenQA>:


 > zypper search --details --match-exact MozillaThunderbird
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name               | Type       | Version             | Arch   | Repository                     
--+--------------------+------------+---------------------+--------+--------------------------------
  | MozillaThunderbird | package    | 68.1.1-lp151.2.13.1 | x86_64 | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository
  | MozillaThunderbird | package    | 60.8.0-lp151.2.10.1 | x86_64 | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository
  | MozillaThunderbird | package    | 60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1  | x86_64 | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository
  | MozillaThunderbird | package    | 60.7.0-lp151.2.4.1  | x86_64 | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository
  | MozillaThunderbird | package    | 60.6.1-lp151.1.9    | x86_64 | Haupt-Repository               
  | MozillaThunderbird | srcpackage | 68.1.1-lp151.2.13.1 | noarch | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository
  | MozillaThunderbird | srcpackage | 60.8.0-lp151.2.10.1 | noarch | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository
  | MozillaThunderbird | srcpackage | 60.7.2-lp151.2.7.1  | noarch | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository
  | MozillaThunderbird | srcpackage | 60.7.0-lp151.2.4.1  | noarch | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository
 >

The current openQA success rate is here: <https://openqa.opensuse.org/>.

#8

Hello, I am new to this forum, I am reporting this because I believe it can be usefrul.
I just installed opensuse 15.2 on a new laptop, thunderbird has been problematic at least during the last year, I had to revert to version 60 in order to be able to see my mail directory structure. Thunderbird version 68 starts with a blanck page and I cannot see my mails and folder structure any longer. The addresses are fine, I can see all of them, but the rest, filters and messages are all somehow invisible, gone and I didn’t find a way to have thunderbird to show them again. Using version 15.1 of opensuse I was able to revert to version 60 using yast, this time I have found an rpm on the net to do so. I do not have the time to fiddle with it so much, I have tried different things and with different mail programs, and I have not been able to get back my messages in any way, not even importing using a different mail program. So I downgraded thunderbird to version 60 again and for now I will stay there, now everything is working fine again. I am going to block the update to the program. If somebody could tell me if a maill program can import fully thunderbird repositories I will really appreciate it, I have tried several but none works. Regards.

#9

@parodi,

First, welcome to the openSUSE forums.

That said, please understand that this is a thread with a specific question about Thunderbird in openSUSE LEAP 15.1.

You have a different question, were in only because you run 15.2.

When you want to draw the attention to your problem, please start a n ew thread with the correct prefix to the title and a title that show keywords related to your problem. Do not attach a different questions about another version at the end of a thread, we want to avoid confusing discussions and your problem will probably not be seen as a new one that needs new help.

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