22-10-2019, 05:58 PM
Thunderbird (the email program) suffered from an obscure problem that didn't respond to the usual online searches. I finally started it from the command line and could see error messages. Searching on them provided the answer. A file in my Thunderbird profile "pkcs11.txt" has a full path using backslashes. Linux has no idea how to deal with "D:\\THUNDE~1\\jb1" and casued problems. This file is concerned with login passwords so that side of Thunderbird was completely borked until I deleted the file. It then gets re-created automatically (and correctly).
Installing Virtualbox looks a bit like hard work. In Windows you simply download the executable installer and run it. In Linux it's a series of wget and other commands. There are Virtualbox bits in the repository but not the whole package as far as I can see. https://computingforgeeks.com/install-vi...inux-mint/
I want to be certain that everything I need to do will work under linux before I consider putting on my main PC. Quite a long way to go yet.
Installing Virtualbox looks a bit like hard work. In Windows you simply download the executable installer and run it. In Linux it's a series of wget and other commands. There are Virtualbox bits in the repository but not the whole package as far as I can see. https://computingforgeeks.com/install-vi...inux-mint/
I want to be certain that everything I need to do will work under linux before I consider putting on my main PC. Quite a long way to go yet.
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