Ubuntu Thunderbird-Lightning Calendar

Sometime ago, probably around the time I upgraded to Ubuntu Jaunty Thunderbird-Lightning stopped working and I didn't get a chance to give it another go. I re-installed it the other day only to see that I still couldn't see my google-calendar. Here is how I solved it.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=841535

It is mentioned that we need  libstdc++5 package for Lightning to work properly. I checked on my system and even though I had lightning installed libstdc++5 was not installed. I installed it and reinstalled lightning with the following commands:

 sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
 sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightning-extension

Voila! it worked like charm ;)

See Also:

• Unable to create a calendar
• Lightning system requirements