Installing Thunderbird onto a 2G

It appears that Asus has seen fit to supply 2Gs without working e-mail clients. Thunderbird also does not appear in the default repositories for the 2G which contain the number 700, rather than the repositories for the 4G which contain the number 701. The first step in this article deals with the editing of these repositories in the sources.list file. Before doing this it would be worth reading the wiki article Adding Additional Software Repositories

This article is derived from information garnered over a number of threads in the forum but summarised in this one.

Change the repositories to point at 701 rather than 700 - this could be done either through Synaptic (sudo synaptic), Settings, Repositories, or else by running:
```
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
```
making the modifcation, then saving (Ctrl+o, Enter), then exiting (Ctrl+x)
Press “Reload” in Synaptic, or, type into a terminal (Alt+Ctrl+t):
```
sudo apt-get update
```
NOTE: If you get an error message, try the next steps anyway. The error message may not be material.
Staying in terminal, download and install Thunderbird:
```
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
```
Staying in terminal, download and install the SCIM fix, which fixes the problems Asus created, it seems:
```
sudo apt-get install eeepc-updatepack-20071126
```
Alternatively, install Thunderbird and the Update Pack via Synaptic.

Adding Thunderbird Icons to Easy Mode

If you want to add icons/shortcuts to Easy Mode, download the Thunderbird icons from Alternative Icons for Common Applications and learn how to install them from Adding icons to Easy Mode on this wiki.

The thread in which this was summarised was mainly contributed to by Neil and Niel1952 but it depended on information provided by sliverstorm, Wilden, TheWalt and others in other threads.

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