Update kills Thunderbird's Lightning calendar

[whyglobaleyes]

Afternoon All,
Newbie here - usual apologies.

I had the same problem with a brand new fresh download & install = no calendar function with Thunderbird (v60.2.1) out of the box + got warnings when I tried to manually install the lightning add-on ("this add-on is not compatible with your version of Thunderbird"). Found an explanation + solution here  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1237318

EXPLANATION        (?? FAO any passing mods)
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looks like some repo's un-bundle thunderbird and lightning :: i wonder if that's happened here?

SOLUTION     (very easy)
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sudo apt-get install xul-ext-lightning
Hope that helps someone one day.
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[UltraCookie]

To be fair. There was a stable release of 6.2 but it's gone now and Lightning is developed by Mozilla so I really wonder what happened there.

[Jerry]

No fault of Thunderbird's. Add On Developers get plenty of warning about API upgrades. Add on coders can be lazy.

[UltraCookie]

You can download the beta version of lightning 6.2 here. It works with the newest Thunderbird and installing it with the xpi file should conserve the the saved events.

[Tyrannocaster]

Looks like the Synaptic app has a different Lightning extension for Thunderbird, and it works, although I lost all my created events. Grr...

[Tyrannocaster]

Crap! Just updated my Linux Lite OS and it updated Thunderbird, and now the Lightning calendar extension no longer works. That was the only thing I found that let me set up recurring events satisfactorily. Can anyone suggest something? I need to set up reminders on a monthly basis, but also on a bi-weekly basis.