How To Install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg
thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg is:
This is a transitional package to ensure that upgrades work correctly. It can be safely removed
Package: thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/devel Source: thunderbird Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 121 Depends: thunderbird-gnome-support, thunderbird-dbg Filename: pool/universe/t/thunderbird/thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg_68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 8316 MD5sum: 8637e1b7686f8b053758e86479ae08a2 SHA1: 2eecb939f01ed763e83f8e8d4d95652c4d82e147 SHA256: f4239cfae7c0b61bed7ca4b729c09f9e17b75b9984b62c2d5cf1d82f40b1e691 Description-en: Email, RSS and newsgroup client - transitional package This is a transitional package to ensure that upgrades work correctly. It can be safely removed
There are three methods to install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg 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-gnome-support-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-gnome-support-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg
Install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg
Install thunderbird-gnome-support-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-gnome-support-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg
How To Uninstall thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg
Uninstall thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg
Remove thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg
Remove thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-gnome-support-dbg package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.