How To Install thunderbird-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is thunderbird-dev
thunderbird-dev is:
This is a transitional package to ensure that upgrades work correctly. It can be safely removed
Package: thunderbird-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: mail Source: thunderbird Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 126 Filename: pool/main/t/thunderbird/thunderbird-dev_68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 9308 MD5sum: 0e6042c4979bba2ec0068fa53f687fcf SHA1: 0be1f948d2a9e85bc978771a468971ea293ac9e1 SHA256: c69502a954f89475478669b6ab40d5fa30d2a7b1fd7e08dc761a5aea2c91e7c5 Description-en: Email, RSS and newsgroup client - development files This is a transitional package to ensure that upgrades work correctly. It can be safely removed
There are three methods to install thunderbird-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-dev 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-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thunderbird-dev
Install thunderbird-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install thunderbird-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thunderbird-dev
Install thunderbird-dev 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-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird-dev
How To Uninstall thunderbird-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the thunderbird-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thunderbird-dev
Uninstall thunderbird-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thunderbird-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thunderbird-dev
Remove thunderbird-dev Configurations and Data
To remove thunderbird-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thunderbird-dev
Remove thunderbird-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thunderbird-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thunderbird-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
