Spicebird is a free and open source collaboration suite. It features include email, calendaring and instant messaging. This post shows how you can install Spicebird on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.
To install Spicebird on Ubuntu 7.10, you can execute the following steps:
1. Download Spicebird beta 0.4 for Linux from here. Save it to ~/Desktop folder.
2. Open terminal window, go to ~/Desktop folder:
cd ~/Desktop
3. Extract to /opt:
sudo tar jxvf spicebird-beta-0.4.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 -C /opt
4. Create GNOME menu.
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/spicebird.desktop
Then add:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Spicebird
Comment=Collaboration suite
Exec=/opt/spicebird-beta/spicebird
Icon=/opt/spicebird-beta/icons/mozicon50.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;
StartupNotify=true
5. Now you can run Spicebird by clicking Applications → Internet → Spicebird.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Holger // Jan 16, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Thank you very much for this “how to”. It work really well for me and I am currently checking Spicebird. I really like the idea behind it and hope it will come soon out of beta with lots of nice features.
I was looking for something like this: the information control center.
2 Rothemund » Blog Archive » Spicebird - Information & Communication Center // Jan 20, 2008 at 2:40 pm
[…] installed it and with the current functionalities it works quite fine. On Phololinux you can find a good tutorial on how to install Spicebird on Ubuntu 7.10. I was very easy to follow and worked fine on my […]
3 Anders // Jan 30, 2008 at 10:48 am
Ubuntu looks very sweet. I’m going to install it as dualboot on my laptop.
4 cabbiebatman // Feb 10, 2008 at 10:26 am
Niiice, spot-on, worked like a charm.
5 Michael // Feb 21, 2008 at 7:42 am
By the way, which font are you using in the screenshot above? Both Spicebird and the font look really cool…
6 Toor // Feb 21, 2008 at 5:44 pm
@Michael: Luxi.
7 Mr Frosti // Mar 16, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I was looking for a .deb file, but this was so short and sweet I used it without being dissappointed in the slightest.
This program has a lot of potential with the planned integration with Microsoft Exchange.
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