How to install thunderbird in Ubuntu
To install thunderbird in Ubuntu
Thunderbird is an open source e-mail client application that manages email accounts which was developed by Mozilla Fondation. It supports almost all platforms. Thunderbird can manage multiple e-mail accounts at the same time. In this article we will learn how to install thunderbird in Ubuntu.
Add the PPA repository for thunderbird by using the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa Staging PPA for Mozilla and other browser-related security updates. Unless you are testing updates, you should not install packages from this PPA More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpu06t1s0c/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpu06t1s0c/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key 7EBC211F from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: /tmp/tmpu06t1s0c/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 7EBC211F: public key " Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu Mozilla Security Team" imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) OK
Next update the software repositories by running the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily InRelease
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security InRelease
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net wily InRelease [15.5 kB]
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-updates InRelease
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/main Sources
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports InRelease
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/main Sources
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Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/main Translation-en
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe Translation-en
Fetched 15.5 kB in 10s (1,468 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now install thunderbird by running the below command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install thunderbird -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
thunderbird-gnome-support
Suggested packages:
ttf-lyx
The following packages will be upgraded:
thunderbird thunderbird-gnome-support
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 250 not upgraded.
Need to get 35.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 8,505 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-updates/main thunderbird amd64 1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 [35.3 MB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-updates/main thunderbird-gnome-support amd64 1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 [8,542 B]
Fetched 35.3 MB in 4min 27s (132 kB/s)
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Preparing to unpack .../thunderbird-gnome-support_1%3a45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking thunderbird-gnome-support (1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1) over (1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.2~bzr0+15.10.20150627.1-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.4-1) ...
Setting up thunderbird (1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apport/blacklist.d/thunderbird ...
Setting up thunderbird-gnome-support (1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1) ...
Once the installation of thunderbird is completed. Search for thunderbird in the unity and open it.
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