{"id":338,"date":"2009-12-21T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillacalendar2.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/21\/questions_and_answers_for_the\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:58:48","slug":"questions_and_answers_for_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/2009\/12\/questions_and_answers_for_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions and answers for the Lightning 1.0 beta1 release candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2009\/12\/lightning_10beta1_release_cand.html\">announcement<\/a>, that we&#8217;ve released a first release candidate of Lightning 1.0 beta1, there have been a few questions here in the comments, which I&#8217;d like to address:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I am getting this error when trying to install Lightning: &#8220;Lightning 1.0b1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.5.6.&#8221; What&#8217;s wrong?<\/strong><br \/>\nThis happens when you just click on the link to the Lightning add-on file in the announcement post in Firefox. Firefox is unable to distinguish between add-ons designed for Firefox and add-ons designed for other Mozilla applications. Please make sure, that you right-click on the link to the add-on file and choose &#8220;Save Link as&#8230;&#8221;. After that follow step 2-4 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2009\/12\/lightning_10beta1_release_cand.html\">announcement post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Google Calendar Provider add-on from the links in the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2009\/12\/lightning_10beta1_release_cand.html\">announcement post<\/a> gives the following error message: &#8220;0.6b1 requires additional items&#8221;. What&#8217;s wrong?<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a known bug and will be fixed shortly.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Are 64bit builds for Linux available?<\/strong><br \/>\nNot yet, but our lead developer Philipp Kewisch is in the process of creating them and will post an announcement here on the blog once he&#8217;s finished.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Does the lightning-all.xpi file contain all localizations, and does the lightning.xpi in the en-US folder contain only the English strings?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Will this release candidate build automatically update itself to the final version of Lightning 1.0 beta1?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo. Once Lightning 1.0 beta1 is released in its final form, we will make it available on <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/addon\/2313\">addons.mozilla.org<\/a>. You will need to download it again then.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>I have an error &#8220;An error was encountered preparing the calendar located at moz-profile-calendar:\/\/ for use. It will not be available.&#8221; I cannot create events or tasks. What can I do to fix this?<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2009\/11\/getting_a_database_error_in_yo.html\">this blog post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>There&#8217;s no release candidate for Sunbird yet. When will that be available?<\/strong><br \/>\nAs said in the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2009\/12\/lightning_10beta1_release_cand.html\">earlier post<\/a> we are having problems with our Sunbird build machines. Once those are fixed, we will make a release candidate for Sunbird available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that answers most of your questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my announcement, that we&#8217;ve released a first release candidate of Lightning 1.0 beta1, there have been a few questions here in the comments, which I&#8217;d like to address: I am getting this error when trying to install Lightning: &#8220;Lightning 1.0b1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.5.6.&#8221; What&#8217;s wrong? 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