How To Install thunderbird-gnome-support on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-gnome-support on Ubuntu 18.04. thunderbird-gnome-support is Email, RSS and newsgroup client - GNOME support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-gnome-support on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is thunderbird-gnome-support

thunderbird-gnome-support 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 depends on the GNOME libraries which allow Thunderbird to take advantage of technologies such as GConf, GIO and libnotify

There are three methods to install thunderbird-gnome-support 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-gnome-support 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install thunderbird-gnome-support

Install thunderbird-gnome-support Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install thunderbird-gnome-support

Install thunderbird-gnome-support 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird-gnome-support

How To Uninstall thunderbird-gnome-support on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove thunderbird-gnome-support

Uninstall thunderbird-gnome-support And Its Dependencies

To uninstall thunderbird-gnome-support and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove thunderbird-gnome-support

Remove thunderbird-gnome-support Configurations and Data

To remove thunderbird-gnome-support configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge thunderbird-gnome-support

Remove thunderbird-gnome-support configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thunderbird-gnome-support

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-gnome-support package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.