[NTLUG:Discuss] FC3 Install missed on news reader

[Stuart Johnston]

On 6:57 pm 05/03/2005 MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com> wrote:
> On May 3, 2005, at 5:14 PM, John K. Taber wrote:
> >>  -----Original Message-----
> >>  On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:36 -0500, John K. Taber wrote:
> >>>  How do I re-install Mozilla for newsgroups? Alternatively, is
> >>  there a
> >>>  news reader like Forte Agent for Linux?
> >>>
> >>    If you have Mozilla, you should have the newsreader.
> >>  MozillaFirefox is just the browser, but what people call Mozilla
> >>  is usually the suite with email, calendaring and the browser.
> >
> >  Well I fired up a thing called Mozilla, but it lacks email and a
> >  newsreader. I'm guessing that is because at install time I
> >  specified Evolution for mail instead of Mozilla. I don't actually
> know.
> Mozilla is most likely the Icon tag, not the name of the app then.
> To to the Help->About and it will most likely say Firefox.  You will
> need to install Thunderbird if you want news reading capabilities (or
> any other news reader).

The Mozilla Suite is broken-up into several packages by most distributions
such as Fedora.  (See 'yum search mozilla')  It is completely possible to
install the Mozilla web browser without installing the Mozilla mail reader
component.  This was true way before Firefox(Firebird/Phoenix) existed.


As I said before, all you need to do is install the mozilla-mail package
(yum install mozilla-mail).  Although Pan or Thunderbird would be good
options as well.


Stuart Johnston