How To Install thunderbird on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install thunderbird on Ubuntu.

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. 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

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, 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 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

Dependencies

thunderbird have the following dependencies:

References

thunderbird website

Summary

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