Quote Originally Posted by oldgeezer
More suggestions?
1) Don't do anything: just use mozilla's mail module, which is virtually identical to thunderbird!

2) If you insist on the stand-alone mail client version, you'll need to solve your apt-get issues. I seem to recall somebody complaining recently about one of the servers included in the default knoppix /etc/apt/sources.list not being online all the time. ftp2.debian.de or ftp2.de.debian.org, I think. Replace that with simply ftp, or better yet replace all german mirrors with servers closer to your place, then run "apt-get update" in order to retrieve the latest list of available packages. Then "apt-get -s -t unstable install mozila-thunderbird" will show you whether the package is installable without wanting to upgrade a whole gamut of dependencies. If the output looks reasonable, go ahead and rerun the above command without the "-s" (simulate) flag.

Sorry but Knoppix probably is not one's best bet to benefit from debian's touted seemlees upgrades. That's because it happily mixes stable/unstable and even non-official package pools in order to offer us a bleeding-edge linux demo system. Installing from kanotix or mepis is supposed to result in a purely sid-based system, with smoother upgrade path.