How To Install thunderbird-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-dbg
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is thunderbird-dbg
thunderbird-dbg is:
Thunderbird is a full-featured email, RSS and newsgroup client that makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before. It supports different mail accounts (POP, IMAP, Gmail), has a simple mail account setup wizard, one- click address book, tabbed interface, an integrated learning spam filter, advanced search and indexing capabilities, and offers easy organization of mails with tagging and virtual folders. It also features unrivalled extensibility.
This package contains the debugging symbols for Thunderbird
There are three methods to install thunderbird-dbg
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install thunderbird-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install thunderbird-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thunderbird-dbg
Install thunderbird-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install thunderbird-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thunderbird-dbg
Install thunderbird-dbg Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install thunderbird-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird-dbg
How To Uninstall thunderbird-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the thunderbird-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thunderbird-dbg
Uninstall thunderbird-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thunderbird-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thunderbird-dbg
Remove thunderbird-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove thunderbird-dbg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thunderbird-dbg
Remove thunderbird-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thunderbird-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thunderbird-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-dbg
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.