How To Install birdtray on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install birdtray on Debian 10.
What is birdtray
birdtray is:
Birdtray provides systray notifications for Thunderbird. It displays the count of unread mail, hides the Thunderbird window when not in use, and restores it on clicking the tray icon. It also provides a context menu with commands such as starting composing a new mail.
It is a nasty hack – an external process looking at Thunderbird’s insides, it suffers from problems like noticing new mails only after a delay, having to restart Thunderbird just to hide its window, etc – you’d want to use an extension like firetray instead – but, it is likely that support for Thunderbird XUL extensions will be dropped soon, possibly by the time you read these words.
There are three methods to install birdtray on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install birdtray Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install birdtray using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install birdtray
Install birdtray Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install birdtray using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install birdtray
Install birdtray 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install birdtray using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install birdtray
How To Uninstall birdtray on Debian 10
To uninstall only the birdtray package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove birdtray
Uninstall birdtray And Its Dependencies
To uninstall birdtray and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove birdtray
Remove birdtray Configurations and Data
To remove birdtray configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge birdtray
Remove birdtray configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove birdtray configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge birdtray
Dependencies
birdtray have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install birdtray package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.