Getting T-Bird to talk in Ubuntu Mate-- Should work for icedove and iceweasel in Debian, too

[D. A. H.]

I seem to have misplaced the most recent email in which this question 
has been asked, so, will post to these lists.  The commands below should 
get the Mozilla apps talking in Ubuntu-mate and Debian installations 
without Gnome (e. g. Mate).  If you're using a 32-bit system, change as 
appropriate.

HTH,

Dave




As root:
mkdir /usr/lib/gtk-2.0
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/ /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/