Cross-platform calendar Using Sunbird in Ubuntu -- Debian Admin

Cross-platform calendar Using Sunbird in Ubuntu

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Mozilla Sunbird™ is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Our goal is to bring Mozilla-style ease-of-use to your calendar, without tying you to a particular storage solution.

Install Sunbird in Ubuntu Dapper Drake

Download Latest version of Sunbird from here to your /opt directory

Once you download the sunbird you need to extract using the following command

sudo tar -jxvf sunbird-0.3rc1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

Now you have sunbird directory in your /opt

Now you need to setup the folder owner using the following command

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

Change the permissions using the following command

sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/sunbird/

Create a link for the program

sudo ln -s /opt/sunbird/sunbird /usr/bin/sunbird

Now you need to craete a application menu for this you need to create a file

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

add the following lines and save the file

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

Now you can refresh gnome desktop using the following command

sudo killall gnome-panel

This will complete the installation and application menu creation.

Now if you want to access sunbird you need to go to Applications—>Office—>Sunbird you can see this in the following screen