How To Install thunderbird-bidiui on Debian 12

Learn how to install thunderbird-bidiui on Debian 12 with this tutorial. thunderbird-bidiui is BiDirectional support for Thunderbird

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-bidiui on Debian 12.

What is thunderbird-bidiui

thunderbird-bidiui is:

An extension for Thunderbird that allows users to create emails with explicit paragraph directionality, as needed for proper recipient rendering of emails with bidi languages, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu or Yiddish.

The extension adds “BiDi” controls, setting the paragraph direction, as well as automatic direction sensing for unformatted text messages, and direction overrides.

There are three methods to install thunderbird-bidiui on Debian 12. 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-bidiui 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-bidiui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install thunderbird-bidiui

Install thunderbird-bidiui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install thunderbird-bidiui using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install thunderbird-bidiui

Install thunderbird-bidiui 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 thunderbird-bidiui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird-bidiui

How To Uninstall thunderbird-bidiui on Debian 12

To uninstall only the thunderbird-bidiui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove thunderbird-bidiui

Uninstall thunderbird-bidiui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall thunderbird-bidiui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove thunderbird-bidiui

Remove thunderbird-bidiui Configurations and Data

To remove thunderbird-bidiui configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge thunderbird-bidiui

Remove thunderbird-bidiui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove thunderbird-bidiui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thunderbird-bidiui

Dependencies

thunderbird-bidiui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-bidiui package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.