How To Install thunderbird on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
Package: thunderbird Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: mail Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 174096 Provides: mail-reader Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.30), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.10.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.4), libharfbuzz0b (>= 0.6.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.14.0), libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8), libstdc++6 (>= 9), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.6.9), libxcb-shm0, libxcb1, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxcursor1 (» 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxrender1, libxt6 Recommends: myspell-en-us | hunspell-dictionary | myspell-dictionary, libcanberra0, libdbusmenu-glib4, libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 Suggests: thunderbird-gnome-support, ttf-lyx Conflicts: mozilla-thunderbird Breaks: thunderbird-couchdb, thunderbird-gnome-support (<= 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu3) Replaces: mozilla-thunderbird, thunderbird-gnome-support (<= 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu3) Filename: pool/main/t/thunderbird/thunderbird_68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 42635092 MD5sum: 6c12e8622f1bfedc293b6a3f0bfdbb4d SHA1: b32efdcab208a497786a50a27914283708c607a7 SHA256: ffaf21ddab679b367d0975f24a4fcbfc32a27e6f5b1cce0679748645d3537992 Description-en: Email, RSS and newsgroup client with integrated spam filter 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. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, ubuntu-desktop-default-languages, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
There are three methods to install thunderbird 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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.