How To Install thunderbird-gnome-support on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird-gnome-support on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
Package: thunderbird-gnome-support Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: mail Source: thunderbird Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 121 Depends: thunderbird (= 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2), libmessaging-menu0, libunity9, libnotify4 | libnotify1 Filename: pool/main/t/thunderbird/thunderbird-gnome-support_68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 8640 MD5sum: d7029e03a86f1294b21c7ce90dc980ff SHA1: 3862025c11d65b6699d07fcc4a609e703b9714de SHA256: 7a9e3a77e1989b7f5f837c4aaff6cf53130297450534abd2f1a2b2af030c9187 Description-en: Email, RSS and newsgroup client - GNOME support 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 Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
There are three methods to install thunderbird-gnome-support 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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
