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[Solved] Lightning calendar killed by Thunderbird upgrade

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[Solved] Lightning calendar killed by Thunderbird upgrade

#1 Post by Kevin1 »

I used Synaptic to upgrade my 64 bit Jessie 8.11 system and now the Lightning calendar is missing from the Thunderbird mail client.
Thunderbird and Lightning are both now 1:60.3.0-1 ~ deb8u.
Under Thunderbird Tools/Add-ons/Extensions, Lightning 5.4 is disabled and stated to be incompatible with Thunderbird 60.3.0.
I understand that there are security issues with Thunderbird / Lightning, and there are suggestions on the web that Lightning is no longer an add-on, but is integrated into Thunderbird.

I wish to stay with Jessie and urgently need to get my calendar back.

What are my options?
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Re: Lightning calendar killed by Thunderbird upgrade to 60.3

#2 Post by stevepusser »

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apt-cache policy lightning

apt-get install lightning
if you see, as you should, the 60.3 version will be installed.
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Re: Lightning calendar killed by Thunderbird upgrade to 60.3

#3 Post by Kevin1 »

Thanks Steve.

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$ apt-cache policy lightning
lightning:
  Installed: 1:60.3.0-1~deb8u1
  Candidate: 1:60.3.0-1~deb8u1
  Version table:
 *** 1:60.3.0-1~deb8u1 0
        500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:52.8.0-1~deb8u1 0
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

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$ sudo apt-get install lightning
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
lightning is already the newest version.
lightning set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libjsoncpp0 linux-headers-3.16.0-5-amd64 linux-headers-3.16.0-5-common
  linux-image-3.16.0-5-amd64
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Any other suggestions?

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Re: Lightning calendar killed by Thunderbird upgrade to 60.3

#4 Post by stevepusser »

Did you remove the incompatible 5.4 Lightning extension in Tbird yet?
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Re: Lightning calendar killed by Thunderbird upgrade to 60.3

#5 Post by Kevin1 »

I had assumed that as 5.4 was disabled it would have no effect.
After removing it and rebooting I have my calendar back.
The Extension is now showing as Lightning 6.2.3.
Many thanks, Steve.

Kevin

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