Open Source collaboration suite - Spicebird

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, 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.