How To Install thunderbird on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is thunderbird
thunderbird 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.
There are three methods to install thunderbird 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thunderbird
Install thunderbird Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install thunderbird using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thunderbird
Install thunderbird 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thunderbird
How To Uninstall thunderbird on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the thunderbird package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thunderbird
Uninstall thunderbird And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thunderbird and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thunderbird
Remove thunderbird Configurations and Data
To remove thunderbird configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thunderbird
Remove thunderbird configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thunderbird configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thunderbird
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
